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Help a simple man with this:

The victims of communism get a huge, glorious spot on Wellington Street — for the whole world to see — and those who served or died in Afghanistan get a spot below the Portage Bridge for cyclists to wave at.

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Don’t get it. At all.

On Tuesday, Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole announced two new military memorials to be installed at Richmond Landing, not far from the Royal Canadian Navy Monument, which is so grand, and in a location so prominent, I’d never heard of it.

It is, in fact, in a lovely spot: a peninsula in the Ottawa River that sticks out eastward from the Portage Bridge and the Mill St. Brew Pub, which is how you drive in from the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, until a foot path takes over.

But the site is off the main bicycle and walking path behind Parliament Hill and the locals tell me it is snowed in during the winter. Nice. I suppose we can just grieve seasonally, or pay homage in snowshoes.