Emergency Vehicles Escort a Soldier's Remains Home to Prince Albert
An emergency vehicle procession carried a soldier's remains through Saskatoon on Saturday, on the way home to Prince Albert, Sask. Farrell, 23, was one of four people who died in a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta on Oct. 17. Another 39 people were injured.
Farrell's mother, Patricia Farrell, said he was from South Africa and moved to Prince Albert in 2017. He wanted to be in the army, she told reporters. It was his dream.
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The biography arrives in two sentences and does more work than any tribute: South Africa, a move to Prince Albert in 2017, the army as a dream — and a death at 23 in a base fire.
The biography is moving, but the escort is what I keep looking at: local police, fire and ambulance among the emergency vehicles, for a man killed in a fire on a base. A line of service vehicles is a form of accounting, and it says something the quote cannot.