Lost to history: the Canadians who fought in Vietnam

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CBC News
Chris Corday
Nov. 10, 2018

50 years since the U.S. ground war began, there's a push to remember the 134 Canadians killed


At only 17 years old, B.C.'s Rob McSorley knew he wanted to go to war, and it didn't matter if it wasn't in a Canadian uniform.

Now, 45 years after his death in the jungles of Vietnam, his sister is finally learning how much he mattered to the American soldiers with whom he served.

June-Ann Davies says in 1968, her brother was tired of school at Templeton Secondary in East Vancouver, and decided joining the military would cure his boredom.

The war in Vietnam was still raging and Canada wasn't officially participating, but McSorley was determined to be at the heart of it.

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