Sergeant at Arms Vickers who took out the terrorist shooter receives standing ovation from parliament members.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu5XX-OTunc
Sergeant-at-Arms Vickers is a retired RCMP officer of 30 years and he has been the parliamentarian Seargeant-at-Arms since 2005. In all of his 58 years, this was the first time he had to fire his weapon during service.
RIP Corporal Cirillo
The opening shots that began a devastating day on Parliament Hill killed a Hamilton reservist who dreamed of being a full-time soldier and deprived his kindergarten-aged son of his father.
Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, 24, was shot while on honorary guard at the National War Memorial. Ottawa Police announced hours after the shooting that the soldier shot at the memorial had died.
He would later be identified as Cirillo, a reservist from Hamilton serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada regiment. Cirillo died a short time after the attack despite frantic efforts to revive him at the base of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Here are 2 soldiers in ceremonial dress, standing guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier only seconds before Corporal Cirillo was executed. The ceremonial guards were armed with C7 rifles, but were without bolts or ammunition. The C7 uses a 3 position "Safe/Semi Auto/Fully Automatic mode". It is akin to the US M16 in many ways.
RIP Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent
Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has the remains of a Canadian soldier who was killed in the Great War(WWI).
In The remains of the soldier were exhumed on the morning of May 16, 2000, and the coffin was flown in a Canadian Forces aircraft to Ottawa on May 25, accompanied by a guard of honour, a chaplain, Royal Canadian Legion veterans, and representatives of Canadian youth. In Ottawa, the unknown soldier lay in state for three days.
At the old grave in France
"Plot 8, Row E, Grave 7, of the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery in Souchez, France, near the memorial at Vimy Ridge, the site of the first major battle where Canadian troops fought as a combined force
The following inscription reads"THE FORMER GRAVE OF AN
UNKNOWN CANADIAN SOLDIER
OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
HIS REMAINS WERE REMOVED
ON 25 MAY 2000 AND NOW
LIE INTERRED AT THE
NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL
IN OTTAWA CANADA.'
On the afternoon of May 28, the body of the unknown soldier was transported from Parliament Hill to the National War Memorial on a horse-drawn gun carriage provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, as well as veterans, Canadian Forces personnel, and members of the RCMP, were in the funeral procession. Then, with appropriate ceremony, the body of the unknown soldier was re-interred in a sarcophagus in front of the War Memorial.
