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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, November 21, 2014 | 20 Cpl. Cirillo's ride home on Highway of Heroes was sad, but uplifting continued from p.16 His murderer would continue on to Parliament Hill's Hall of Honour, still armed, to be stopped only when fatally shot by Sergeantat-Arms Kevin Vickers. Besides being the rector at St. Jude's, Fead is also the military chaplain for the Argyll regiment and has been a major with the Canadian Armed Forces since 2004. As such, he officiated at the service for Cirillo. The path to that service, which garnered national and international attention, began more than two decades ago when "a parishioner there (at St. Jude's) was the former commanding officer for the Argylls and he said `Our regiment was looking for a chaplain, would you be interested?'" recalled Fead. The 21-year reverend admits he didn't know what to expect as he began basic training, which included everything but weapons training, shortly after accepting the regiment's role as chaplain. During the Afghanistan conflict, Fead provided rear party support from 2004-13, which involves: giving pastoral support to the wounded and their families, death notifications to next of kin, escorting families to Trenton and then back to their homes with the fallen, presiding over the funeral service and providing follow-up pastoral support. "Once the (Oct. 22) incident happened, I was called by the commanding officer and told that one of our guys had been shot at the war memorial," said Fead. "I went to notify the family and that afternoon, myself and another officer escorted the family to Ottawa... and then returned with them to their Hamilton home on the Highway of Heroes." Fead says being part of Cirillo's return home on that stretch of Hwy. 401 was both extremely emotional and uplifting. "Just tens of hundreds, maybe even hundreds of hundreds, of people that were on the side of the road and bridges, all the way from Ottawa to Hamilton," he noted, explaining he wasn't surprised to see Canadians rally behind one of their own. He says in his experience, during the Afghanistan conflict, the Highway of Heroes from Trenton to Toronto was always packed with people showing their support and respect for the fallen coming home. "I'm not sure another country, anywhere in the world, does that the way we do," Fead said, noting he's seen reports from American television networks commenting on the highway and how "incredible Canada is at showing respect and coming out to support the families of the fallen. "I think it's been an overwhelming support all along, this one was just the biggest that I have ever seen -- because it happened on our own soil," he explained. "It just affected the country in such a way, and the place where it happened -- at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. For a solider, that's one of our most sacred places and for one of our own to end up being tragically killed there was just a stunning thing for all of us." The funeral service, which was held at Christ's Church Cathedral in Hamilton (the Anglican cathedral for the Diocese of Niagara), saw 800 people pack the place of worship, while approximately 4,000 more filled Copps Coliseum to watch a livestream of the service and seemingly hundreds of thousands of others took to the streets, according to Fead. "It was pretty overwhelming how much Cpl. Cirillo's death affected the whole nation, really. I was aware, in a sense, this was a funeral for the whole nation. Even though, I knew there were 800 people packed in the cathedral, I knew there were potentially millions watching on television, too," he said. "Maybe we lost our innocence, a little bit, in the sense that these things have now happened on home soil. So, I think it affected the country that way. 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