Canadian Forces Snowbirds Capt. Chuck Mallett speaks to reporters after surviving a mid-air crash that killed his friend and colleague, Capt. Miles Selby, near Mossbank, Sask., in December, 2004. I was fresh out of journalism school working my first job at the Moose Jaw Times-Herald when I snapped this. It was picked up by the Canadian Press and ended up running in The Globe and Mail and Macleans magazine, the first time my work appeared in either publication--at once a huge thrill but also a...
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Canadian Forces Snowbirds Capt. Chuck Mallett speaks to reporters after surviving a mid-air crash that killed his friend and colleague, Capt. Miles Selby, near Mossbank, Sask., in December, 2004. I was fresh out of journalism school working my first job at the Moose Jaw Times-Herald when I snapped this. It was picked up by the Canadian Press and ended up running in The Globe and Mail and Macleans magazine, the first time my work appeared in either publication--at once a huge thrill but also a difficult thing to reconcile under the circumstances.
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