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Summary
Join us as we hear from a Canadian serving in the Middle Eastern Middle East and North Africa as she talks about her experience serving her country, her family, and what it's like being deployed to Bahrain. She also talks about the challenges of being away from her family and how she deals with them.
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Ma'am, you honour all of the members of the legal branch, past and present, with your
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decision to grant your royal banner to mark the centenary of the legal branch. The banner
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is here with us today in Ottawa, and the branch would be honoured if you were to present this
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to us. I'm delighted to present my royal banner to the legal branch of the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Merci beaucoup, madame. Thank you very much, ma'am. So, how long have you been in Bahrain?
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We got here December 29th, so just before the new year, so it'll be almost seven months.
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It is away from home, and it is a little difficult. I have two really small children.
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My youngest just turned two years old a few weeks ago, actually.
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I do miss them. I do miss them very, very much, but they don't completely understand at their age why
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I'm gone or what I'm doing. But I hope that one day, when they understand why mom was gone,
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and that I made a commitment to serve my country, and in addition to my commitment to my family,
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that they'll be proud of me. And they actually do think I'm pretty cool right now, because I didn't
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know how to explain it to my three-year-old son, what mom was doing. So, I just told him that I'm
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away fighting pirates. And he thought that was pretty neat.
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Well, that's a very good answer, because that's probably almost true, isn't it? Oh, well,