Comparative fatalities in Afstan

I think my points below will not be made in our major media:

A Danish soldier was killed and another wounded in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Thursday...

Including the latest death, Denmark has lost 13 soldiers in Afghanistan. Two other Danes were killed March 17 in an attack on an ISAF convoy.

More than 30 international soldiers have been killed this year, most of them in hostile action.

Denmark has about 550 troops in Helmand, where most international soliders with ISAF are British...

Denmark has a population of some 5.5 million, almost exactly one-sixth of Canada's. So on a per capita basis that would equate to 78 Canadian fatalities. In fact we have suffered 81 deaths. Just about the same amount of sacrifice.

Also on a per capita basis, the Danish force commitment would equate to 3,300 from Canada; ours actually is around 2,500 (with a couple of hundred at Camp Mirage in the Persian Gulf).