UNLOCKING THE PAST | War memorials: our places of quiet reflection

By Kimberly O'Sullivan
Updated June 11 2021 - 11:38am, first published May 12 2021 - 5:00am

War memorials are the most sobering of all our public monuments. They signify the remembering of particular wars, or wartime events, but more importantly they remind us on a communal level of the cost of war, starkly recording the cost of freedom.

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