On the death of a corporal

Carol Off

The following link is to a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) interview that was on yesterday’s radio program As it Happens. The subject of the interview was a bystander’s response to Wednesday’s terrorist killing of 24-year-old Corporal Nathan Carillo, who was on honorary guard duty at the Canadian National War Memorial. The interviewer is Carol Off and the interviewee Barbara Winter. I envy Carol’s ability to carry on so admirably through an interview that left me wrecked, and I especially envy Barbara Winter’s ability to be emotionally present, both with the dying corporal and on an internationally broadcast radio program. How I wish I could remain so in touch with the best that is within me.

http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2568457500

Barbara Winter