Cpl Kevin Megeney NSH - 06 March 2007
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Thank you CdnArtyWife for posting your husband's remarks. As my husband rests upstairs after just returning from 3-06, I have a better understanding of what he watched and endured, and participated in over the past 7 months. Sept 03, my husband lost his WO, Rick Nolan, and carried him on his final journey onto the Herc.
I pray that this rotation is a safe tour.
Thank you
I pray that this rotation is a safe tour.
Thank you
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To the family of Cpl. Kevin Megney - please accept our heartfelt condolences. We know your pain and mourn your loss with you.
There is no pain so deep as that of losing a son and brother particularly in a sudden and tragic way in a country so far away. May you find a little peace in the care and love of family and friends whose physical presence will care for you. May you also find some comfort in knowing that many grieve alongside you right across Canada. It has been six months since we lost our son and we are thinking about you with compassion and love while we remember our own loss.
Family of Mark Anthony Graham
There is no pain so deep as that of losing a son and brother particularly in a sudden and tragic way in a country so far away. May you find a little peace in the care and love of family and friends whose physical presence will care for you. May you also find some comfort in knowing that many grieve alongside you right across Canada. It has been six months since we lost our son and we are thinking about you with compassion and love while we remember our own loss.
Family of Mark Anthony Graham
I HAVE JUST LOOKED AT THIS SITE DEDICATED TO KEVIN.i HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES.GREAT JOB LISA.I HAVE SOME PICS OF KEVIN AND MY SON,THEY WERE TAKEN IN GAGETOWN AND KANDAHAR.IF YOU COULD CONTACT ME I WILL SEND THEM TO YOU.
KEVIN YOU ARE IN OUR THOUGHTS EVERYDAY.SINCERELY DEBBIE A MOM WHO HAS A SON IN KANDAHAR
KEVIN YOU ARE IN OUR THOUGHTS EVERYDAY.SINCERELY DEBBIE A MOM WHO HAS A SON IN KANDAHAR
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Megeney will be brought to Angus Funeral Home in New Glasgow.
A family viewing will be held Wednesday afternoon, while public visitations will be held Wednesday evening, Thursday afternoon and Thursday evening.
A full military funeral will be held for Megeney in Stellarton on Friday at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, beginning at 11 a.m. It’s expected as many as 5,000 people may be in attendance, his uncle said.
A reception will follow at the Stellarton Legion.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/564301.html
A family viewing will be held Wednesday afternoon, while public visitations will be held Wednesday evening, Thursday afternoon and Thursday evening.
A full military funeral will be held for Megeney in Stellarton on Friday at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, beginning at 11 a.m. It’s expected as many as 5,000 people may be in attendance, his uncle said.
A reception will follow at the Stellarton Legion.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/564301.html
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Fallen soldier makes his final trip home
CAIT MCINTYRE
The News
NEW GLASGOW – A silence fell on the crowd as Cpl. Kevin Megeney’s flag-draped coffin was removed from its hearse.
It was a silence that was broken only by the sobs of Megeney’s family members, who stood huddled together in their grief. On Tuesday evening, members of the First Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders carried Megeney’s body slowly, almost as if in slow motion, past the crowd of more than 100 family members and friends to H.W. Angus Funeral Home in New Glasgow.
“It was hard. It was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” said George Megeney, Kevin Megeney’s uncle.
Unable to fight back his tears, George described how he waited for his late nephew’s coffin to arrive at the Robert Stanfield International Airport in Halifax earlier that day.
“God love him, he was such a good young man,” he said.
At age 25, Kevin Megeney was shot in a “friendly fire” incident while he lay asleep in his tent in Afghanistan earlier this month.
It’s difficult to believe there are those who don’t support our troops in Afghanistan, particularly at a time like this, he added. He said this is something that has nothing to do with what side of the political fence people sit on.
“What folks have got to understand is we have to support these young men over there (in Afghanistan.) I understand there are risks, but If we are sending these kids into harm's way, we have to support them 100 per cent,” George said.
But George Megeney as well as Harold Fraser, a family friend and a veteran, said Pictou County residents they have encountered have shown the utmost respect for the late soldier and his family members.
Fraser remembers Megeney as “a very good man, and an excellent soldier.
”It’s tragic he had to come home this way,” Fraser said
CAIT MCINTYRE
The News
NEW GLASGOW – A silence fell on the crowd as Cpl. Kevin Megeney’s flag-draped coffin was removed from its hearse.
It was a silence that was broken only by the sobs of Megeney’s family members, who stood huddled together in their grief. On Tuesday evening, members of the First Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders carried Megeney’s body slowly, almost as if in slow motion, past the crowd of more than 100 family members and friends to H.W. Angus Funeral Home in New Glasgow.
“It was hard. It was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” said George Megeney, Kevin Megeney’s uncle.
Unable to fight back his tears, George described how he waited for his late nephew’s coffin to arrive at the Robert Stanfield International Airport in Halifax earlier that day.
“God love him, he was such a good young man,” he said.
At age 25, Kevin Megeney was shot in a “friendly fire” incident while he lay asleep in his tent in Afghanistan earlier this month.
It’s difficult to believe there are those who don’t support our troops in Afghanistan, particularly at a time like this, he added. He said this is something that has nothing to do with what side of the political fence people sit on.
“What folks have got to understand is we have to support these young men over there (in Afghanistan.) I understand there are risks, but If we are sending these kids into harm's way, we have to support them 100 per cent,” George said.
But George Megeney as well as Harold Fraser, a family friend and a veteran, said Pictou County residents they have encountered have shown the utmost respect for the late soldier and his family members.
Fraser remembers Megeney as “a very good man, and an excellent soldier.
”It’s tragic he had to come home this way,” Fraser said
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For The Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Laurence Binyon (1914)
Rest In Peace Kevin
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Laurence Binyon (1914)
Rest In Peace Kevin
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God Bless Mcpl Megeney.
and for his comrades and family who are left to mourn:
It’s easy to fight when everything’s right,
And you’re mad with thrill and the glory;
It’s easy to cheer when victory’s near,
And wallow in fields that are gory.
It’s a different song when everything’s wrong,
When you’re feeling infernally mortal;
When it’s ten against one, and hope there is none,
Buck up, little soldier, and chortle:
Carry on! Carry on!
There isn’t much punch in your blow.
You are glaring and staring and hitting out blind;
You are muddy and bloody, but never you mind.
Carry on! Carry on!
You haven’t the ghost of a show.
It’s looking like death, but while you’ve a breath,
Carry on, my son! Carry on!
And so in the strife of the battle of life
It’s easy to fight when you’re winning;
It’s easy to slave, and starve and be brave,
When the dawn of success is beginning.
But the man who can meet despair and defeat
With a cheer, there’s the man of God’s choosing;
The man who can fight to Heaven’s own height
Is the man who can fight when he’s losing.
Carry on! Carry on!
Thing never were looming so black.
But show that you haven’t a cowardly streak,
And though you’re unlucky you never are weak.
Carry on! Carry on!
Brace up for another attack.
It’s looking like hell, but – you never tell.
Carry on, old man! Carry on!
There are some who drift out in the desert of doubt
And some who in brutishness wallow;
There are others, I know, who in piety go
Because of a Heaven to follow.
But to labor with zest, and to give of your best,
For the sweetness and joy of the giving;
To help folks along with a hand and a song;
Why, there’s the real sunshine of living.
Carry on! Carry on!
Fight the good fight and true;
Believe in your mission, greet life with a cheer;
There’s big work to do, and that’s why you are here.
Carry on! Carry on!
Let the world be the better for you;
And at last when you die, let this be your cry!
Carry on, my soul! Carry on!
Carry On, by Robert Service, Rhymes of the Red Cross Man, 1916
and for his comrades and family who are left to mourn:
It’s easy to fight when everything’s right,
And you’re mad with thrill and the glory;
It’s easy to cheer when victory’s near,
And wallow in fields that are gory.
It’s a different song when everything’s wrong,
When you’re feeling infernally mortal;
When it’s ten against one, and hope there is none,
Buck up, little soldier, and chortle:
Carry on! Carry on!
There isn’t much punch in your blow.
You are glaring and staring and hitting out blind;
You are muddy and bloody, but never you mind.
Carry on! Carry on!
You haven’t the ghost of a show.
It’s looking like death, but while you’ve a breath,
Carry on, my son! Carry on!
And so in the strife of the battle of life
It’s easy to fight when you’re winning;
It’s easy to slave, and starve and be brave,
When the dawn of success is beginning.
But the man who can meet despair and defeat
With a cheer, there’s the man of God’s choosing;
The man who can fight to Heaven’s own height
Is the man who can fight when he’s losing.
Carry on! Carry on!
Thing never were looming so black.
But show that you haven’t a cowardly streak,
And though you’re unlucky you never are weak.
Carry on! Carry on!
Brace up for another attack.
It’s looking like hell, but – you never tell.
Carry on, old man! Carry on!
There are some who drift out in the desert of doubt
And some who in brutishness wallow;
There are others, I know, who in piety go
Because of a Heaven to follow.
But to labor with zest, and to give of your best,
For the sweetness and joy of the giving;
To help folks along with a hand and a song;
Why, there’s the real sunshine of living.
Carry on! Carry on!
Fight the good fight and true;
Believe in your mission, greet life with a cheer;
There’s big work to do, and that’s why you are here.
Carry on! Carry on!
Let the world be the better for you;
And at last when you die, let this be your cry!
Carry on, my soul! Carry on!
Carry On, by Robert Service, Rhymes of the Red Cross Man, 1916
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A bit belated, but I was in the field with H-coy 2RCR from the 5th untill just now... HLTA time.
I knew Kev from back home at the unit, and the times we had together are some of the best. Tearing apart the mess and winter warfare ex's wont be the same without you buddy. You had a tremendous spirit that was always uplifting, and the laughs never ended. You were a dedicated soldier, a fine man and a good friend and I thank you for all of it.
As another Nova Scotia son is buried , its difficult to bear especially since it was someone close to me. 1NSH and Pictou County is now a far lesser place without you Kev. It will always be one of my deepest regrets that I was unable to be there, or at the ramp ceremony or your funeral, but I promise I will visit when I go home for leave.
My deepest sympathies to Lisa and the Megeney family.
It will never be the same without you Kev. Dunno what else to say... but I'll leave it with Crosby as he said it best..
Kevin, you were loved and you will be missed.
Plant and I will have a drink for you when I get home.
RIP Kev :'(
- Mack
I knew Kev from back home at the unit, and the times we had together are some of the best. Tearing apart the mess and winter warfare ex's wont be the same without you buddy. You had a tremendous spirit that was always uplifting, and the laughs never ended. You were a dedicated soldier, a fine man and a good friend and I thank you for all of it.
As another Nova Scotia son is buried , its difficult to bear especially since it was someone close to me. 1NSH and Pictou County is now a far lesser place without you Kev. It will always be one of my deepest regrets that I was unable to be there, or at the ramp ceremony or your funeral, but I promise I will visit when I go home for leave.
My deepest sympathies to Lisa and the Megeney family.
It will never be the same without you Kev. Dunno what else to say... but I'll leave it with Crosby as he said it best..
Kevin, you were loved and you will be missed.
Plant and I will have a drink for you when I get home.
RIP Kev :'(
- Mack
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