Have they ever brought a deceased team member back home in this fashion?
Snowbirds no but yes in a similar fashion with CF188 and CC150 Polaris when Canada suffered there first casualties of war in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan in 2002. Subsequently this lead to the formation of theHighway to Hero's. The highway’s name was coined unofficially in 2002, after the first of Canada’s soldiers killed in Afghanistan were repatriated. The remains were flown into Canadian Forces Base Trenton,It was 2007 when the Canadian government renamed the freeway stretching from Trenton, Ontario, to the city of Toronto the Highway of Heroes. Also known as Macdonald-Cartier Freeway or Highway 401, it meanders more than 100 miles, most of it along Lake Ontario.
We shall not forget
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