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Captain Charles Trevor Greene (born 1965) is a writer, journalist, and a former officer in the Seaforth Highlanders of the Canadian Forces. Greene sustained a massive brain injury after a much publicized attack on March 4, 2006, in the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. 〔 〕 〔 〕 〔 〕 Greene is notable for being one of the first recipients of the Sacrifice Medal and being the subject of a feature-length documentary that won a Gemini Award, ''Peace Warrior'', which documents his recovery.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 Greene was also a torch-bearer for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.〔 〕 == Biography == Greene was born in 1965 to Richard and Elizabeth Greene in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He attended King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he completed a bachelor's degree of journalism with honours in 1988.〔(Trevor Greene, Author, Journalist, Entrepreneur )〕〔(Trevor Greene's Long Journey Back )〕 Greene moved to Japan soon after, to work for Bloomberg News and the Yomiuri Shimbun. Greene joined the Canadian Navy in 1995, where he sailed on , the Navy's tall sail-training ship and the oldest commissioned ship of the Canadian Forces. He then settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, and transferred to the Canadian Army's reserve, as an officer in a reserve infantry unit, the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. He also joined Bloomberg News Vancouver bureau and began researching and writing about the Downtown Eastside, an area encompassing five neighborhoods, an area noted for a high incidence of poverty, drug use and sex trade.〔 In 2001, Greene met his future wife, Debbie Lepore, a chartered accountant. In 2005, their daughter Grace was born.〔 On July 24, 2010, Lepore and Greene were married. 〔 〕 Greene is the honorary patron of the Honour House Society, an organization dedicated to help the families of wounded Canadian soldiers in the New-Westminster-Vancouver area.Honour House is located in New Westminster.〔(Honour House - About Us )〕 He was also awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws in May 2009.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trevor Greene」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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