Audrey, first of all I would like to say " You are welcome" . I am a mom of a wounded Canadian soldier, who like many left behind their children and loved ones to ensure you and others like you will always have the right to express your opinion no matter how outrages it sounds to us the parents of our young men and women of the military, but in saying that before voicing your opinion, get your facts straight, or at least educate yourself  on the acronym of the military, Speers was not a Col. ( Colonel) , he was a Sergeant 1st class. He graduated from Combat Medical Specialist course, that in my books makes him a medic. You also forgot I suppose to mention that after Khadr killed Sgt. 1st class Speers and wounded another, it was an American medic who gave him ( Khadr) medical attention, saving his sorry ass, so he could stick it to the Canadian people, with the help of the idiot some Canadians call PM. ( that would be Prime Minister) in case you didn't know.