Canadian Soldier Funeral

Why Soldiers Enlist

Description image by Melanie Murray Author, For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier.
  • First Posted: May 23 2011 11:03 AM

[VIDEO] What made the late Jeff Francis go from being a PhD student to a military captain in Afghanistan?

Capt. Jeff Francis was one of six Canadian soldiers to die in a roadside bombing on July 4, 2007, in Afghanistan. For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier tells Francis' story through the prism of his family's struggle to understand his death and the choices he made that led him to Afghanistan.

Photo courtesy of Reuters.

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