Let’s build memorials celebrating reconciliation

Not sure what this tiny statue is celebrating. But he makes me happy. Photo by Антон Воробьев on Unsplash.

There are a lot of war memorials in our great country. Statues and plaques with names of soldiers, everyday, ordinary people who picked up arms for a cause and who left everything on battlefields that are now grassy hills just a few blocks from your neighborhood grocery store.

When I visit these places, I read about the courage of the young men who left their homes in the middle…