Heritage Minutes: Jonathan Snyder
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JONATHAN SNYDER: We need to return fire! Your men need to fire back!
Donovan! Look Corporal, if we're going to get out of here alive, we better start doing it. I'll hold them, you secure us a way out.
DONOVAN BALL: I don't know where we are Jon.
JONATHAN SNYDER: Yeah you do brother! You're in Afghanistan!
NARRATOR: For his role in saving dozens of lives during an ambush, Captain Jon Snyder was awarded the Star of Military Valour. Of the forty thousand Canadians who served in Afghanistan, 158 did not come home, including Jon Snyder.