FILE--Sandi and Barry Mellish comfort each other at a memorial service for their son, Warrant Officer Frank Mellish at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, Ont. on Friday Sept 8, 2006. During his first visit to dusty Kandahar Airfield, Barry Mellish was moved to tears by the modest marble cenotaph that commemorates the Canadian lives lost to the war in Afghanistan - including that of his son, Frank. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson