According to Regimental HQ, Mike arrived back in Canada on 6 Mar. As far as sending messages to him, here is the information recieved thus far from the Adjutant:

MCpl Loewen will be staying at the U of A once he arrives. I will have to check with the AO to see if they want condolences sent to the hospital or to their personal home.


As soon as more info is available, I will let you all know.

Dave

All the best to Mike and his family from me and mine,makes you think sometimes if it is all worth it.
Arthur

Ain't war a nice invention of Mankind aye.

Wish everybody could mind his own business and do something usefull. What would the world look like if everybody was scalemodelling or something else that would not harm other people. The world would already be better without fanatics in ANY religion

Not a religious man myself but my thoughts are with Mike and I hope he will recover quickly

I've just heard on the CBC radio news that they've all arrived back in Canada just now and Mike is en route to the Edmonton hospital where he'll be with his family and will get the best of care. There were others injured but apparently don't require hospital stay. They've all returned home now and some are travelling on from Edmonton to be reloined with their families and further convalescence.

Speedy recovery Mike....

I can only echo what everyone else here has said. May the Lord help him in his recovery and his family. Thanks for posting this.

Update
An update courtesy of the Toronto Sun newspaper says that our wounded boys have returned home. Mike was among them..


Dave

I have two family members serving in Iraq right now and we'll add Mike to our prayers from here on.
Mike, hang in there buddy. I know it ain't much but thank you for your service, and again, we'll be praying for you and God bless you.

Hermon, Selina, Hunter, & Haiden Rector

Sorry to hear about Mike, my family and I wish him a speedy recovery. My heart goes out to his buddies that didn't make it.

Holy jeez... I didn't know about this until now? Shows how much I pay attention.

My condloences to Mike and his family. It's never good to hear of a fellow canadian being injured. It's even worse if they die, but i really hope, and think that mike won't die. If he's back in canada, and felling fine enough to post, then that will be a good sign.

My thoughts go out to Mike and his family... hope he has a speedy recovery.

Update:

Mike was repatriated from here the other day. He will convalesce in Edmonton. While he may require more medical interventions, there is a very good prognosis. I can't be more specific than this due to confidentiality issues.

Rest assured, those of us who remain in Afghanistan wish him, and the other soldiers sent home, a speedy and successfu recovery.

Thanks Mike for the update.We're all glad to here he is doing well.Hope when he is well enough he will let us all know what is up and how he's doing.

Again thanks for the update.

Jim

they give their today for our tomorrow

LEST WE FORGET
thankyou

Here is an update from Mike himself posted on the CDN Forum
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/72802&page=1

Jim

Damn, not good..I hope this whole thing ends sooner than later

Now I know why I love this site. My wife and I were amazed to see how many people wrote! The closeness of this site is amazing!!! Thank you for all the well wishes. Right now I'm out of the hospital and am finally at home with my family. I still have a long way to go with recovery and physio but hope to be modelling soon Thank you again for all the well wishes.

Mike

Mike

Glad to hear from you Best wishes from this pig for a speedy recovery (++)

Mike,

Glad to see you Up / Out and About!!!!!! Take you're time.... and Get well Don't push through Rehab too fast.......


Matt

Good to see you up and around Mike.

Mike,
Good to see you posting. Thank you. For everything.

The Keenans

My thoughts are with this Brave Soldier!

Mike,

get well!!! And good to see that you are out and about again.

Hi Mike,

may you have a trouble-free, full and speedy recovery!

Sincerely,

Fred

Hi Mike!

That's very good news after all you did get through... I'm very happy for you and your family. Thanks for taking the time to post a message here...

Jean-Luc