Gutted - One sad story

[studlyone]

I received an e-mail today to say that one of my geocoins - The Worrying Parents Geocoin is no more. Its mission was to stay in Afghanistan with the lads and lasses out there and to hopefully bring a bit of good luck. Here is the message I received from a Canadian Solider.

While I had your geocoin we were ambushed in Zhari District of Afghanistan.
Our LAV (armoured vehicle) was destroyed. It burnt compleltely. Your geo-coin 'Worrying Parents Trakabulldog Geocoin' was in the LAV. It too was destroyed. I never had an opprtunity to move it to another cache.
3 Of my friends died in the incident and 5 others are wounded.

I'm certainly not fussed about losing the coin, but I really feel for the geocacher, his friends and their families at this time. It certainly makes you sit up and realise that there's more to life than complaining about geocoins when they go missing.

[The Cache Hoppers]

That is very sad.

[Bill D (wwh)]

Yes, that does rather put things into perspective. Obviously none of us wants to lose a geocoin, but in the bigger picture it's trivial really. We play a game, and perhaps we sometimes take ourselves and our game rather too seriously.

[fraggle69]

More of a bad luck geocoin eh! Sad story indeed....

[Mrs Blorenge]

A very sad story... And, after such an incident, how touching that the Canadian soldier remembered about the coin and was good enough to get in touch to explain what had happened.

[studlyone]

A very sad story... And, after such an incident, how touching that the Canadian soldier remembered about the coin and was good enough to get in touch to explain what had happened.

Absolutely, having been there myself last year and going back again next year it certainly brings things home for me. Sadly things like that are a daily occurance over there and its almost forgotten about here. My heart and sympathies go out to those involved and their families.