Shot fired in Ottawa

CDNBear

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Naw you just bore me. What are you even saying? I dunno. If I ever had insomnia I'll just read your attempts to troll me.
Oh oh, I said I was sowwee.

Wait, are you mad because I made fun of your idiotic commentary, or the fact that I wasn't in awe of your idiotic commentary?
 

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The saddest thing I saw today was the image of a woman, then police officers and medics desperately pumping the heart of the soldier in Ottawa, as he lay dying.

How long they strived I cannot tell, but long it was. And enough to make all of us who were watching tremble and weep with sheer pity.

To kill a soldier standing unarmed ceremonial guard at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier was a bottomless cowardice and a perversion.

If the soul of Canada has an abiding place, it is here. In the great hallowed War Memorial with the tomb, in our capital city, a bugle call away from the chambers of our national deliberations.

The murder of fine, fit, friendly and unarmed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was not a thoughtless act; instead it was soaked in callousness and contempt.

The slaughter was meant to burn, beyond the deed itself, to speak fundamental insult to the very ideas of honour, sacrifice and solidarity, which are our military's credo and our country's ideals.

The killer was a hateful brute; let us not name him. But today was not the damn killer's, it produced a master counterexample: the sergeant-at-arms, Mr. Kevin Vickers.

Mr. Vickers, the whole country is unanimous on all the matters that count: bravery, duty, selflessness, you are as good as they get.

The office of Sergeant-at-Arms can never have been better filled.

So as we mourn the soldier, Corporal Cirillo, let us honour the sergeant, Mr. Vickers.

They encompass between them so much of what we Canadians choose to admire and love.

Rex Murphy's Speech On Ottawa Will Make Every Canadian Proud
 

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sorry, just one last thing:

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"You are loved" woman who rushed to help Nathan Cirillo made sure there was sweetness in his final moments

http://bit.ly/1uLYE8m #Ottawa


Woman recalls efforts to save downed soldier at War Memorial - As It Happens - CBC Player




I lied...

Rex Murphy's Speech On Ottawa Will Make Every Canadian Proud

(well, most Canadians anyway):

Rex Murphy managed to summarize a national tragedy in two minutes Wednesday, hours after a gunman went on a brazen attack in the nation’s capital, killing an unarmed Canadian soldier before dying in a gunfight.

Murphy regularly appears on “The National” delivering terse commentary on current events. His take on the shootings in Ottawa offer a poetic homage to the memory of fallen soldier Cpl. Nathan Crillo and the day’s hero, sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers.

Read Murphy’s full commentary below:


  • The saddest thing I saw today was the image of a woman, then police officers and medics desperately pumping the heart of the soldier in Ottawa, as he lay dying.How long they strived I cannot tell, but long it was. And enough to make all of us who were watching tremble and weep with sheer pity.

  • To kill a soldier standing unarmed ceremonial guard at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier was a bottomless cowardice and a perversion.

  • If the soul of Canada has an abiding place, it is here. In the great hallowed War Memorial with the tomb, in our capital city, a bugle call away from the chambers of our national deliberations.

  • The murder of fine, fit, friendly and unarmed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was not a thoughtless act; instead it was soaked in callousness and contempt.

  • The slaughter was meant to burn, beyond the deed itself, to speak fundamental insult to the very ideas of honour, sacrifice and solidarity, which are our military's credo and our country's ideals.

  • The killer was a hateful brute; let us not name him. But today was not the damn killer's, it produced a master counterexample: the sergeant-at-arms, Mr. Kevin Vickers.

  • Mr. Vickers, the whole country is unanimous on all the matters that count: bravery, duty, selflessness, you are as good as they get.

  • The office of Sergeant-at-Arms can never have been better filled.

  • So as we mourn the soldier, Corporal Cirillo, let us honour the sergeant, Mr. Vickers.

  • They encompass between them so much of what we Canadians choose to admire and love.


    Rex Murphy's Speech On Ottawa Will Make Every Canadian Proud
 

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I like that pretty much no one knows who the barbarian's name is nor care to know. We should have a contest here to give him a fitting name.
 

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The saddest thing I saw today was the image of a woman, then police officers and medics desperately pumping the heart of the soldier in Ottawa, as he lay dying.

How long they strived I cannot tell, but long it was. And enough to make all of us who were watching tremble and weep with sheer pity.

To kill a soldier standing unarmed ceremonial guard at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier was a bottomless cowardice and a perversion.


Another aspect of this incident which is almost as sad is the perpetrator is the son of two apparently thoroughly decent and respectable people who up until this point loved him. I continue to "beat my head against the wall" trying to figure out how and why this stuff happens. Another similar case is the kid in Calgary who last spring murder 5 students with a knife. His father is a head honcho in the police force.

I like that pretty much no one knows who the barbarian's name is nor care to know. We should have a contest here to give him a fitting name.


The line between him and normal, decent, contributing members of society may be a lot finer than one would imagine. I don't think a contest celebrating such an incident would be either fitting or proper. I think there are lots of "cracks" that need filling.