Video: Grief, resilience and lingering disbelief
Life goes on in Ottawa — no one ever doubted otherwise
Flowers and candles left by mourners sit near the National War Memorial after a soldier was killed in Ottawa on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. A gunman turned the nation’s capital into an armed camp Wednesday after he fatally shot an honour guard at “point blank” range at the National War Memorial before setting his sights on Parliament Hill. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
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Ottawans flocked to a solemn war memorial to pay their respects to Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, insisting their city would recover from a chilling day. Their faces wore a mixture of grief, resilience and lingering disbelief in the face of an attack that, only a day before, seemed so unconscionable.
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