With a Viewpoint, here is Halifax lawyer and writer Brian Flemming.
Military monuments are everywhere in Halifax.
But the most striking monument is this one to the Crimean War. It honours two Haligonians who died at the battle of Sebastopol in that 19th century conflict. On this last Remembrance Day in this century, which has been the bloodiest in human history, on the 11th hour of the 11th day, public ceremonies here will commemorate those who served and sacrificed in the great wars of this century. The Korean War, for example, was only noted on a Halifax cenotaph long after it ended and only after Korean war vets mounted a vigorous public campaign to have it listed there. After the remote control and for our side relatively bloodless wars of the last decade in the Gulf and Serbia, we are in danger of coming to look upon war as some kind of a giant video arcade game.