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Fort McMurray — The Royal Canadian Legion is asking anyone with information about vandalism to an Afghanistan Fallen Veterans Memorial in Fort McMurray to contact police.

The legion branch says between 12:30 a.m. and 4:40 a.m. on June 4, someone threw paint at the base of the monument.

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“Soldiers, and the legions that serve them, do not associate themselves with any political viewpoint nor profess opinion on where our country sends us to do its bidding,” said branch president Pat Duggan in a statement.

“To desecrate the monument that reminds us of the 162 of our nation’s fallen is similar to going to the hometowns of those brave souls and desecrating each of their gravestones.”

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The monument — a shell of a decommissioned LAV III — arrived at the legion in October and was unveiled later that month.

A plaque on the side of the monument acknowledges the 40,000 Canadian Forces personnel who served in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014, as well as the 162 Canadians who died during the mission “in the cause of bringing peace and freedom to the people of Afghanistan.”