Town Council Says Battlefield Cross Monument Inappropriate

[oneshooter]

Officials worry a monument featuring a gun may be an inappropriate centerpiece in the village park.

A veterans group wants to complete the Veterans Memorial in Milford's Central Park with a fallen soldier monument, but the Village Council isn't sure the piece — which features a pair of boots and a helmet atop an M-16 rife — is an appropriate focal point for the park.

Bear Hall, founder and chairman of the local Friends of American Veterans (FAV), approached the council earlier this month hoping for approval of the plan.

The group wants to place a fallen solder memorial – also known as a battle field cross – at the end of the brick paver walkway leading out from the current Veterans Memorial near the main park entrance.

The plan calls for an 8-foot-tall monument, including a 43-inch granite base matching the current memorial, topped by a 52-inch sculpture of the fallen soldier memorial: a bronze sculpture of combat boots, rifle – an M-16 – with dog tags and a helmet on top.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/04/14/fallen-soldier-monument/25760969/


I just don't know what to say, most of it would not be allowed on DU.

[upaloopa]

1. That is what we did in Vietnam for the

guys who were killed. At night the boots, rifle, helmet and dog tags were set up and taps played.
I think the folks back home sometimes need a jolt like that to remind them of what they are doing when they vote for war.
The yellow ribbons just don't say it like this monument would.

[oneshooter]

2. Yes, but the anti-gunners will not allow an "assaulr rifle" to be part of it. n/t

[upaloopa]

3. They don't speak for me on this.

Sometimes you just have to do what you think is right.
On this they have their heads up their ass.

[11 Bravo]

4. That just might be the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard.

If they substituted a squirt gun for the M-16 would that be OK? Nah, probably not … still a gun, after all.
Wait! I've got it … a NERF blow-gun!

[gratuitous]

5. Suggested compromise

An eternally flushing toilet.

[DashOneBravo]

7. Good point

Dug a lot of catholes?

[HereSince1628]

6. I can't think of a better place for such a memorial than a park.

Especially if it's placed where boys and girls can see what is expected of them as adult citizens of the country.

If we're going to make America be Sparta or the Klingon homeworld, we have to get kids into the proper mindset as soon as possible so that they develop into strong and willing warriors.




Where the heck would a city put such statuary if it wasn't a park or other open public place?