Fallen Canadian Soldier's Dogs Spotted Waiting for His Return

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Brian Ries - Mashable


Warning: These photos are completely heartbreaking.

Two dogs owned by Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, the Canadian soldier who was killed in Ottawa on Thursday, were spotted peeking out from under a fence at his home.

Molly Hayes, a reporter at The Hamilton Spectator, tweeted a photo of this "sad sight" on Thursday.

http://i.imgur.com/l2tYkdH.png

Peter Power, a photographer with The Canadian Press, took a photo of the dogs too.

http://i.imgur.com/TrNeaGX.png

Cpl. Cirillo featured the dogs prominently in his Instagram photographs, where he called the German Shepherd "my baby girl."

http://i.imgur.com/NPpHW1f.png

Cirillo was killed on Wednesday by 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who shot the soldier at close range as he stood guard at Ottawa's National War Memorial. Zehaf-Bibeau was later killed after he ran into the Canadian Parliament building, firing his weapon. Canadian officials are calling his attack an act of terrorism.

[deebakes]

holy shit, is that sad :(

[perrhaps]

My apologies for going slightly off-topic, but my hat's off to our Canadian friends.

In Canada, when a soldier is killed by an Islamic terrorist, citizens line the bridges above his path to his grave, with the full support of their government, who promptly and accurately label the incident as "terrorism".

In America, when scores of soldiers are killed at Fort Hood by an Islamic terrorist, our government labels the incident as a "workplace incident". Shame on us!