11-year-old awarded tragic yet historic honour
ST.
CATHARINES, Ont. —
Eleven-year-old Danika
Storm was bestowed a
tragic yet historic
honour at her father's
funeral Friday when
military brass informed
her she had become the
youngest-ever recipient
of the Memorial Cross.
Cpl. Albert Storm, one
of two soldiers killed
by a suicide bomber in
Afghanistan last week,
lost his own mother
years earlier and was
divorced from the mother
of his two children.