Understanding true meaning of sacrifice sometimes takes awhile
I remember being puzzled by the statue. A sculpted infantryman stands high on a plinth, gazing upwards. I remember wondering: shouldn’t a fighting man be looking forward, toward the enemy’s trenches?
KINGSTON, ONT.—My parents took me there when I was a young lad.
I recall going into City Park, to the corner of Wellington and West streets, and walking around the Great War memorial reading the names of the battles where Kingston’s 21st Battalion fought—the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Ypr...
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