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He was the all-Canadian victim of the year’s most notorious murder.
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Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the barrel of an unloaded C7 assault rifle in his gloved right hand, when a gunman approached him from behind and shot him twice in the back during the bustle of an October morning in downtown Ottawa.
Cirillo, 24, died in full dress uniform: in the kilt, sporran, tunic and spats of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada.
His disheveled murderer, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was dead minutes later after a mad dash to Parliament Hill. Zehaf-Bibeau was a petty criminal, drug addict and drifter, and his final act was likely a strange brew of mental illness and Islamic extremism.
It made the injustice of his act that much more difficult to accept since Cirillo was everything Zehaf-Bibeau was not: He was a fun-loving friend and stand-up guy; a devoted son, soldier and father.
Nathan Frank Cirillo was born in Hamilton two days before Christmas, 1989. He grew up in the city’s working-class east end and set his sights on a military career. He was an army cadet at 13 then joined the Canadian Armed Forces Primary Reserve in 2006, one year before graduating from Sherwood Secondary School. In his high school yearbook, he said his goal was to serve in Afghanistan.
His life took an unexpected turn in 2009 when his then girlfriend gave birth to a son, Marcus, but Cirillo accepted responsibility and found unreserved happiness in fatherhood. He served as a part-time soldier with the Argyll and Sutherlands while awaiting his chance for a full-time military career and supplemented his income by working as a personal trainer and nightclub bouncer. He loved dogs and motorbikes and hanging out with friends at Hamilton’s Pheasant Plucker Pub.
In death, Cirillo was eulogized as a hero, but he’s better remembered as a good man in the right place at a terrible time.
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Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the barrel of an unloaded C7 assault rifle in his gloved right hand, when a gunman approached him from behind and shot him twice in the back during the bustle of an October morning in downtown Ottawa.
Cirillo, 24, died in full dress uniform: in the kilt, sporran, tunic and spats of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada.
His disheveled murderer, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was dead minutes later after a mad dash to Parliament Hill. Zehaf-Bibeau was a petty criminal, drug addict and drifter, and his final act was likely a strange brew of mental illness and Islamic extremism.
It made the injustice of his act that much more difficult to accept since Cirillo was everything Zehaf-Bibeau was not: He was a fun-loving friend and stand-up guy; a devoted son, soldier and father.
Nathan Frank Cirillo was born in Hamilton two days before Christmas, 1989. He grew up in the city’s working-class east end and set his sights on a military career. He was an army cadet at 13 then joined the Canadian Armed Forces Primary Reserve in 2006, one year before graduating from Sherwood Secondary School. In his high school yearbook, he said his goal was to serve in Afghanistan.
His life took an unexpected turn in 2009 when his then girlfriend gave birth to a son, Marcus, but Cirillo accepted responsibility and found unreserved happiness in fatherhood. He served as a part-time soldier with the Argyll and Sutherlands while awaiting his chance for a full-time military career and supplemented his income by working as a personal trainer and nightclub bouncer. He loved dogs and motorbikes and hanging out with friends at Hamilton’s Pheasant Plucker Pub.
In death, Cirillo was eulogized as a hero, but he’s better remembered as a good man in the right place at a terrible time.
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