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For Your Tomorrow explores motivation for becoming a soldier

Author Melanie Murray traces her nephew's decision to risk his life in Afghanistan.

On July 4, 2007, Captain Jeff Francis and five of his fellow Canadian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan. A husband and father, Cpt. Francis was 36 years old. Author Melanie Murray's new book, For Your Tomorrow: The Way of An Unlikely Soldier, tra...

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