The light armored vehicle (LAV III) monument at the Cobourg Afghanistan Memorial was defaced with graffiti between the evening of Jan. 2 and morning of Jan. 3, according to Cobourg police. The words “death to imperialism” were spray-painted on one side of the LAV III. https://twitter.com/CobourgPolice/status/1345780658375897089 Cobourg Police Chief Paul VandeGraaf condemned the act of vandalism. “Having your personal opinion is fair. It is in the Canadian Charter of Rights, but when you deface someone else’s property, that becomes a criminal issue,” VandeGraaf said in a statement. “Someone decided to deface a memorial to war veterans—a complete disregard for the thousands of Canadian Armed Forces personnel who served and the 162 Canadians who died for peace and freedom to the people of Afghanistan.” “Defacing a memorial dishonours those who sacrificed their lives, their families and the women and men who served that continue to struggle with those invisible wounds that come …