'What they did was noble': Soldiers who died in Afghanistan remembered at re-dedication of memorial
'I was feeling the spirit of those fallen soldiers,' says Jim Davis, father of deceased Canadian soldier
Murray Brewster · CBC News · Posted: Aug 17, 2019
Faces of the fallen are shown on a screen during the re-dedication ceremony of the Kandahar cenotaph at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa on Saturday, Aug. 17. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
It started as a simple two-tonne boulder, a nondescript hunk of rock plucked from the lonely Afghan wilderness and hung with a few plaques, but through almost a dozen years of war and heartbreak it has morphed into a major symbol of national sacrifice.
The cenotaph re-dedicated Saturday in a large public ceremony in Ottawa looks almost nothing like the original, humble soldier's monument first unveiled in 2003 by a grief-stricken combat engineer.
It is bigger, more elegant and — as was demonstrated last spring — exceedingly more powerful.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/afghan-cenotaph-dedication-again-1.5250149
Canadian AND American soldiers were remembered at this ceremony. One can be against us being in Afghanistan. As a matter of fact, a number of Nato countries have made sacrifices over there as well. More pictures at link, I had to get those Royal Guard type uniforms into this. That's interesting that they do that in Canada.
What is a "Cenotaph"?
cenotaph
[ˈsenəˌtaf]
NOUN
a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war.
