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COLIN MACLEAN: Together, always

Prince Edward Island was reminded of the cost of service recently with the deaths of local paramedics Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher, along with the patient in their care, Anne Martell.

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Their ambulance collided with a transport truck on Route 16 in New Brunswick on July 7. The driver of the truck was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life threatening, injuries.

It was a tragedy the likes of which our little province, thankfully, rarely faces.

Any life cut short is motive for sadness and reflection.

But death, for whatever reason, just seems to hit differently when it finds someone in a uniform while they are doing their job.

Maybe it’s because a uniform marks the individual as part of a greater whole. If you wear a uniform, you’re not just........

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