It’s just lip service,” says former Warrant Officer Ed Storey, who was the war diarist for the Canadian Expeditionary Force Command headquarters. He later did the same sort of work at Ma’Sum Ghar, a now abandoned Canadian forward operating base in Kandahar. The battlefield memorial at Ma’Sum Ghar consisted of a large Canadian flag and painted stones to commemorate those who had fallen there. Many of those families later took advantage of a government offer to fly to Kandahar and visit the memorial. Canadian Forces spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier said the Kandahar bas-relief is part of the Kandahar memorial in Ottawa; the other one is part of the Camp Mirage collection at Trenton Air Force base, though its website doesn’t mention it.

Source: National Post May 23, 2019 23:28 UTC