FILE -- Master Warrant Officer Albert Boucher, the camp sergeant major, is responsible for placing the plates and tending to the memorial, June 7, 2008, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. Boucher's duties is watch over the marble monument to Canadians who have died in Afghanistan. Every time a soldier is killed, a black granite plate - laser etched with their photograph, their name, their rank, their unit and age - is created. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Murray Brewster