A monument honouring soldiers killed in Afghanistan was targeted by vandals Wednesday night.
Members of the Royal Canadian Legion House in Kanata discovered that the memorial, an inukshuk, had been tipped over early Thursday.
“I can’t fathom the mindset of the people who did this,” said legion spokesman Bob Butt. “It just escapes me.”
The statue had been given to the legion last fall from the family of Marc Leger who was killed in Afghanistan in 2002.
“It represented my son and all the families,” said Marc’s father, Richard Leger, who built the inukshuk. “It feels to me like we lost another dead soldier.”
The Inukshuk was cemented to the ground and weighed between five hundred to one thousand pounds meaning it would have been difficult to push over.
The legion is asking the people responsible for the vandalism to come forward.
“I would like the persons who did this or the person who did this to own up to it and to meet some of these people who have served us so courageously and so gallantly,” said Butt.
With a report from CTV Ottawa’s Catherine Lathem
