Lost in the ranks: Canadian veteran can’t get compensation

Jacob Boon
OpenFile
November 10, 2011

Josh Miller isn’t his real name. The 26-year-old ex-corporal says he’s under a standard two-year agreement not to speak to media upon leaving the Canadian Forces. He’s also worried any negative comments could impact the medical settlements he’s fighting to get from Veterans Affairs.

Still, he wanted to talk.

Miller recently moved to Halifax with his girlfriend while she finishes school. Before that, he was serving his country as an infantry member in Afghanistan. He’s tall, broad-shouldered, and has literally been through a war. But all those experiences have left him a different person; struggling to adjust to civilian life back home.

“I’m not the same person I used to be,” he says. “I used to be a very chilled, laid-back person. But now, it doesn’t take anything to make me snap and make me irate.”

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