This is what the front campus of the University of Toronto looks like today, Remembrance Day 2008. This is the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Each cross bears the name of one of 628 alumni, students, or faculty members who died in World War I. It reminds us of what happens when we fail to resolve our differences peacefully. War is the failure of peace.
The crosses remind us that war is evil and horrible. All of these lives were wasted in a war that never should have happened. War is not glorious. War is not something we should be proud of even though we may honor those individuals who answered the call, and sacrificed their lives, when the politicians and diplomats failed to do their duty.
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