“When you are dying, you need to be told how loved you are.”

Yesterday an honour guard solider was killed in my country's capital city, Ottawa.

The soldier's name was Nathan Cirillo. The name of the coward who shot him in the back while guarding The National War Memorial is not worth repeating. The coward was later killed by the sergeant-at-arms.

It's so senseless and random. I don't understand how someone can make the choice to end another human being's life.