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Jump to full article: Globe and Mail (ca), 2000-11-11
Author: LEAH McLAREN
Intro: Canada's peacekeepers are a living paradox. Our proudest exports, they remain unknown soldiers, doing jobs utterly unlike the iconic missions of the World Wars. This Remembrance Day, LEAH McLAREN meets the troops at Camp Drvar in Bosnia . . .
I brought a carton of Canadian cigarettes to Drvar in hopes of currying favour with the troops. I was sorely disappointed to find out that it is no longer 1945 in the army -- most young soldiers don't smoke. On the contrary, these guys are health nuts.
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