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| Subject: The Cult Of The Canadian State Jerking Off Big Time: Brainwashed crowds line 500 kilometers of 'Highway of Heroes' to pay respect to fallen soldier Sun Oct 26, 2014 12:28 am | |
| The body of a Canadian soldier shot dead by an extremist gunman while guarding the country's war memorial in Ottawa has been returned to his home town of Hamilton, Ontario.
Homegrown radical Michael Zehaf-Bibeau killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo, 24, on Wednesday before running into the parliament building, where he was shot dead near where prime minister Stephen Harper was meeting with politicians.
Crowds of people lined much of the roughly 500-kilometre route along Lake Ontario, paying their respects as a black hearse, accompanied by dozens of police vehicles, carried the slain soldier past.
Along the route, crowds waved flags and broke out in applause as the motorcade passed by.
The "Highway of Heroes" tradition dates to 2002 when Canada's first war dead began returning from Afghanistan.
The route leads to a coroner's office in Toronto from an air base in Trenton, Ontario, where soldiers killed overseas were first taken.
Mourners in the past have flocked to overpasses, hanging flags as a sign of respect.
"Nobody knows what that family's going through but if in some way we can pass along our respects to them, it brings Canadians closer together," Pete Fisher, author of Highway of Heroes: True Patriot Love, said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-25/canada-shooting-people-line-500-kilometres-of-highway-of-heroes/5841634 |
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