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  • Canada Grateful to Cpl Cirillo (Canada Salutes Its Fallen Soldier)

    10/28/2014 11:18:46 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 17 replies
    BBC News ^ | 10/28/2014 | BBC News
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told thousands of mourners the nation was deeply grateful to a soldier killed by a gunman in Ottawa last week. Mr Harper spoke at a funeral for Cpl Nathan Cirillo, 24, who was shot by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau while standing guard unarmed at Canada's war memorial. Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, then entered Canada's Parliament and fired dozens of shots. Mr Harper choked back tears as he addressed Cirillo's five-year-old son, Marcus Daniel Cirillo. "May time ease the searing pain of today," Mr Harper said. "And may [Marcus] some day find comfort in the fact that our entire country...