Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 39 Captain Charles Trevor Greene Greene was born in 1965 to Richard and Elizabeth Greene in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He attended King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he completed a bachelor's degree of journalism with honours in 1988. Greene moved to Japan soon after, to work for Bloomberg News and the Yomiuri Shimbun. Greene joined the Canadian Navy in 1995, where he sailed on HMCS Oriole, the Navy's tall sail-training ship and the oldest commissioned ship of the Canadian Forces. He then settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, and transferred to the Canadian Army's reserve, as an officer in a reserve infantry unit, the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. He also joined Bloomberg News Vancouver bureau and began researching and writing about the Downtown Eastside, an area encompassing five neighborhoods, an area noted for a high incidence of poverty, drug use and sex trade. In 2001, Greene met his future wife, Debbie Lepore, a chartered accountant and in 2005, their daughter Grace was born. On July 24, 2010, Lepore and Greene were married. Greene is the honorary patron of the Honour House Society, an organization dedicated to help the families of wounded Canadian soldiers in the New-Westminster-Vancouver area. He was also awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws in May 2009. Greene is the 1st recipient of the “Sacrifice Medal” was the subject of a docudrama film entitled “Peaceful Warrior” and was a torchbearer during the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics. Lieutenant Greene deployed to Afghanistan in 2006 as a Civilian-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) officer, volunteering from his home unit of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and on March 6, 2006, in a village outside of Kandahar City, he suffered a devastating head injury while at a meeting with local village elders. The following story of his injury and his miraculous recovery, and the Legion’s role in that recovery, was originally printed in the 2015 edition of BC/Yukon’s Veteran Recognition Book and is re-printed here to honour a courageous Nova Scotian and a true Canadian hero. Canadian Sacrifice Medal
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