MCpl Rena Groves may soon come to your town and if she does, she’ll be asking you to sign a ‘best wishes’ book she’s created for Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Groves, from St. John’s, was in Ottawa today with her book and she presented to the national Conservative caucus. The Prime Minister along with his caucus signed the book.
“It’s point is that we are in Afghanistan, but Canadians are in Afghanistan with us,” said Groves. “It’s telling our soldiers, we’re here, we care and come back safe.”
The book, a personal project of Groves, contains photos and comments from soldiers who have already served in Afghanistan.
Groves will beging travelling across the country in February — she’ll start off in her hometown on The Rock — looking for signatures for her book. The book will eventually be presented to the troops in Afghanistan before returning to Canada. Groves said the book will then be given to the Canadian War Museum.
Groves, who is at Canadian Forces Station Leitrim near Ottawa, has not yet been deployed to Afghanistan. “I want to go. That’s it, that’s all, there is no more!”