Move the Kandahar monument and give it a proper home

Rather than spend the $500,000 in repairs to the memorial hall, the cenotaph should be relocated to Beechwood Cemetery.

Then-Major-General Jonathan Vance places poppies on every plaque on the Memorial of the Fallen at Kandahar Airfield during the last Remembrance Day ceremony in Southern Afghanistan on Nov. 11, 2011. DND photograph by Sergeant Lance Wade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

August 19, 2020

OTTAWA—Last week, the Kandahar cenotaph was back in the news as it was reported that the memorial hall built to house it had suffered severe weather damage during the winter. While the Department of National Defence states that the contents of the cenotaph were unaffected,

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