Posted on 10/24/2014 12:06:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
People across the country are mourning the death of Corporal Nathan Cirillo today. Since his shooting death at the war memorial in Ottawa, there has been an outpouring of sympathy for his family and his comrades in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders reserve force.
Barbara Winters shares that feeling. She is now a lawyer but she spent 17 years in the Naval Reserve. And she was one of those who came to the aid of Nathan Cirillo yesterday in the moments after he was attacked.
In an emotional interview with As It Happens host Carol Off, she recalls her efforts trying to save the life of Cpl. Cirollo. "I told him you are loved. You are brave. You are good."
Hélas, il est de mon devoir de plume les lignes suivantes tristes et ma douleur ne connaît pas de limites
...
Le soldat gardait le monument
Et il abattu par hasard étrange
Il était triste sur le chemin de la vie, il est allé
C'était une chose si étrange surpassant
Comme on ne peut pas rappeler à n'importe quel nom
Que la puissance d'une vie perdue est destiné
Savons-nous ce que cela pourrait présager?
Je vois encore où il est tombé dans l'oeil
Devant Dieu, toutefois, je ne vais pas mentir
Les larmes tombent maintenant sur mon visage
Un si jeune avec une grâce céleste
Ne devrait pas être sa récompense éternelle
La vie humaine est si fragile et si difficile
Comme une feuille jaune étreinte chaleureuse de la terre
En droit, le soldat tombé honorablement
Pour défendre le monument qu'il aimait tant.
Inspiré par un fait réel au Monument aux Morts près de la Colline du Parlement - Ottawa, Canada ...
Dang! The screen’s all blurry. Prayers.
His death made me think of how short life is and how God can call us home any day.
For God hath shown no greater love for a man than he should give up his life for his brethren.
May the loving God take him into His arms for all eternity and give him eternal life beneath his wings.
Amen.
Yes.
Rendezvous *
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air -
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath -
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
The author was killed in the Battle Of The Somme, on July 4, 1916. He was 28 years old.
Heroes live on in our hearts.
“Everybody is loved....by somebody.”
RIP soldier. And thank you Barbara.
An honorable soldier killed by a coward.
It is good to die for your country? Always!
His sacrifice will not be forgotten.
I understand mourning his death and lauding this woman for her acts of kindness, but why no discussion about the reason for the murder, or the circumstances under which it occurred, or the identity/political/religious/affiliation/motive of the killer? More political correctness?
He was killed in the name of Islam, shot in the back by an Islamic terrorist.
It was a cruel way to die, without even being able to defend himself.
Cirillo was the nicest guy you could ever hope to meet. He didn’t deserve to die so young.
Canada is in mourning and its like its innocence is gone.
It’s pretty obvious:
Barbara Winters and her moment with Cpl. Nathan Cirillo is the face of good.
We all know the evil that killed him. It’s all we ever hear about.
Her actions symbolize what will prevail - the strength in her act of kindness and humanity.
We need to let her actions, the emotion heard in the interview, wash over us, uplift us and fill us with resolve.
It’s very powerful.
My heart aches for his family....
This is sort of an odd recollection to pop into one’s mind at a time like this, but I remember in some of my readings of soldier accounts from U.S. Civil War that shooting a posted sentry was essentially regarded as murder. This was because the sentry was required to maintain his exposed post on the picket line - essentially a fully upright unmoving target. Shooting a sentry was offensive to sensibilities of the other common soldiers because they, on any another day, might be performing exactly the same duty. Instead, it was common practice to “drive the sentries in” by firing above their heads.
It was an odd, brief humanitarian gesture extended by opposing soldiers to one another in the moments before the deluge of death that was coming.
However, the enemy we now face is so unlike anything resembling a soldier that we must put aside any feelings of common humanity towards them and concerntrate fully on finding and destroying everyone of them along with their enablers.
The dogs waiting is a heartbreaker.They are so regal, honorable,loyal.
Radical Islam is a cancer that sooner or later will be wiped from the earth as was Nazism and the blind allgence of the rising sun of the God /emperor.
There is no difference with political Islam.
Kill them until they beg us to stop and raise Mecca to a smoldering cinder.
Not at all odd, but fitting. Cpl. Cirillo was also standing a post, exposed to whatever dangers came his way.
The vast majority of soldiers in the Civil War were believing Christians and Jews who would not knowingly commit cold-blooded murder, most unlike the muslim lunatic who committed this atrocity in Ottawa. Any concept of morality in islam only applies to other muslims.
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