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City momfilled withUN prideBarbara Polgar greets her soldier son. homeBy RON DEVITTHe'sfcJBarbara Polgar isn't one to hide her pride for her son. .For the past six month.s the city mom: has proudly displayed a crossed blue ribbon on her lapel, symbolic or her son Sieved who returned Wednesday from .a six--month UN lour of duly./'People ask me what's the blue ribbon for and I tell them it's for nty son -who’s -peacekeeping in Bosnia,’’ said Polgar..'Not only did she teil friends and strangers of her pride, she;also conveyed it to the person from which the pride came,Everytime he. would pltnne home 1 would tell him I iove'yo’u' and I’m very proud ;of .you,” said Polgar..A’UN flag/lies on (he, family flag pole beneath the'Canadian Maple Leaf, another UN flag and ah enlarged picture of her son In a blue-beret and a rifle adorn one* Tivirig 'rpbrri wall,-A huge ribbon and his towel as a tapcslTy hang on another.: • ' .. Gunner Polgar, the youngest of five children, arrived on Calgary by plane' Wednesday night withabout 250 other members of the' Calgary-based Lord Strathcona's Horse, He drove bade lo Lethbridge with fellow peacekeeper Neil Allred and was in the Pol gar’s norlliside home by 11 p.in.; ' ‘.To have him come through the back door and pick rae up and give me a swinging hug was really nice,*'’ said Barbara.With (he conflict still tm're1 solved between three waning factions in the former Yugoslavia, some Canadian peacekeepers didn't make it back as scheduled. Some were killed in accidents, victims of war.Barbani was happy to see her son in ode piece.It’s still exciting,” she said. Pm running on adrenaline,! was so glad to see him come, through that docr.”Steven, who turns 19 next week, was also happy to be. home after being stationed for six months tit Camp Visoka, about 30 kilometres north''afSarajevo.' 1 ,i.V;-It was great to gel back, said . Steven. You look forward to the -t small, things tike a drink of milk of ‘Ca 'SIufped’ffpin ihe.7-Eleven and you look forward to not trailing a gun. behind you everywhere. youte*»-y. -.But he said-'.the. -part of being home 5s the freedom. -((CRAlU PHOIO 8Y MIKE PATERSONNEIL ALLRED, a colleague of who has also just returnedWe were kept iri the same area and we weren’t allowed to leave, hc.satd./'R was always,the same scenery; I just wanted a change of pace.” .: /Steven, who'had, to'..get'used-to rounds being ; fired over; head, treacherous roads; and bud drivers, worked as a truck driver attached to-Transport-Troop of Head Quarters Squadron.7 Thd-Lord Strathcdna was part of . Operation Cavalier, whose pnma-. ry mission was lo ensure roads and lines'of communication were kept.Steven Polgar. looks over pictures with Steven’s mom’ Bar-frrim Bosnia, bara-Polgar during their.visit to Lethbridge;. ..open lo assist in‘the delivery of Bryson, • Bombardier . Shane-humanitarian aid, ’ Mahon, Bombardier John Sinclair,Steven'said his. best feeling (lurmer'SbanePaharaandGunner ■ came after delivering food to triea--'-1Terry Vanderiberghe .'' were ’ tally handicapped patients in two assigned’id the Lord Strathcona's ■different towns.It lefra nice warm fuzzy feeling inside to know you did something nice,” he said. , 'In all,-12 Leihbjridgc-based‘soldiers, belonging to' the ISlfi- Air Defence Regiment,' were deployed to two Calgary-based units serving in B osni a and Croat i a.Polgar, along .with Capl. CraigHorse.’■ Master' 'Bombad.ier ' Robert Mitchell,'. Bombadicr • Tim Bell, .Sgt.' Brian Feilgeri 7Bpmbarlt;Jrer, John Ldhgfo.fd, Giinner James’ Avison’and Allrcll were assigned to; Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, most of which .relumed from' Croatia the first week of October. . - V ' 7
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Fri, Oct 21, 1994
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