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Over the past few years, Trevor Greene has started up two charitable foundations, been an environmental advocate, published his memoirs and, with his wife Debbie, welcomed a second child into their family.

Still, the 51-year-old Canadian Forces veteran isn’t satisfied. “I’m searching for a path,” he says as we sit together on a recent day in his favourite Nanaimo, B.C., coffee shop, the city he and his young family have called home since 2008.

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Greene’s path, so far, is well known to many Canadians, thanks to the events of March 4, 2006.

On that day, Capt. Greene of the First Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, serving in Afghanistan in a non-combat role of civil-military co-operation officer, was meeting with Afghan elders in a village outside Kandahar. As a gesture of respect, Greene removed his helmet and laid down his weapon.

Moments later, a 16-year-old Afghan boy ran up from behind and struck Greene in the head with an axe, splitting open his skull.