Cpl Jamie Brendan Murphy, 26, died in Afghanistan just a week before he was scheduled to return home.
Military personnel knocked on the Murphy family’s door at 5 a.m. to tell them their son had been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Hours later, members of the Murphy family gathered at their parents’ home in Conception Harbour, a town of 900 in eastern Newfoundland.
“It’s like we’re talking about somebody else,” said Rosemary Ryan, one of Jamie Murphy’s three siblings. “We just can’t believe this is our brother. It’s hard to believe.” His sister Norma Murphy called him “the perfect brother” and questioned the Canadian mission that led to his death. “They’re over there trying to keep peace for people who don’t want it,” she said during an emotional interview with CBC Newsworld. “I don’t think it’s fair. I didn’t want him over there in the first place.” — Read more