A do-over of a dedication ceremony that was held in secret for a cenotaph honouring those who were killed as part of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan will be held this weekend in Ottawa.

The Canadian Armed Forces announced in a press release on Tuesday that the “rededication” for the Kandahar Cenotaph will be held in front of the Afghanistan Memorial Hall at the Department of National Defence’s Headquarters at its Carling campus on Saturday. Families of the fallen in Afghanistan have been invited to this go at the ceremony, which the earlier version was criticized for excluding.

The first dedication ceremony for the Kandahar Cenotaph, which was built by military members who served in Afghanistan to memorialize those who were killed during Canada’s mission to the country, was held in May inside National Defence’s Carling Headquarters at its new Afghanistan Memorial Hall. Only top military brass and staff were invited to attend.

Later that month, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance issued an apology for causing “unintended harm” by holding the ceremony in private.

“When it comes to the opening last week of the Afghanistan Memorial Hall at the new National Defence Headquarters, we unintentionally went down that path,” Vance said in a prepared statement.

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“We owe the family and friends of our Fallen, all who served in Afghanistan, and Canadians an apology for not properly including you and not properly communicating with you. I am truly sorry for our insensitivity and the pain, anger and frustration that this decision caused you. I accept full responsibility for it all,” Vance said.

Vance said the military’s choice to house the monument inside its new headquarters was to keep it safe from the weather and vandalism, as well as to make it more accessible. The decision was also made, in part, because of the military’s plan to dedicate another publicly accessible memorial to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan elsewhere in Ottawa. Family of those killed in Afghanistan, as well as members of the public, have been allowed to book tours to access the cenotaph in the memorial hall since late in May.

“Sadly, in trying to do the right thing by getting the hall opened quickly so people, especially families of the fallen, could arrange to visit, we alienated and angered these same people,” Vance said in his apology statement.

The rededication ceremony, which only those who have been invited are permitted to attend, starts at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the headquarters of the Department of National Defence. The cenotaph will be available to the public the next day.

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