LETTERS
Mefloquine should be banned
I
am glad to see that in the January/February issue of Legion Magazine, The Royal Canadian Legion is pressuring the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence to discontinue the use of the mefloquine anti-malarial prophylaxis (Editorial). As a veteran of Operation Deliverance in Somalia, and having taken the drug, I agree that it should be banned.
Comments can be sent to: Letters, Legion Magazine, 86 Aird Place, Kanata, ON K2L 0A1 or e-mailed to: magazine@ legion.ca
However, I also take offence to describing the deployment to Somalia as “illfated” in your editorial. This mission was far from that and there was an extraordinary amount of great humanitarian work that was completed in those six months! Please refrain from using the term “illfated” as it puts a negative connotation on more than 1,300 soldiers, sailors and airmen and airwomen who served honourably in that theatre.
SHANNON MATECHUK, EDGERTON, ALTA. Advertisement
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