Let's not move the St. Augustine War Memorial, which is a small, fragile historic structure made of coquina shell.
Here's a suggested, aesthetic, architectural-engineering solution: how about a HARB-approved coquina-faced shielding structure built above and surrounding the DOT-FPL electical boxes, as a base for a suitable St. Augustine War Memorial scuplture (perhaps incorporating an image of diverse people saluting a flag-draped coffin, reminiscent of young John F. Kennedy, Jr. saluting JFK's flag-draped coffin in 1963)?
There is no need to give in to frivolous, if not racist, demands to move the War Memorial, e.g., away from the Civil Rights Foot Soldiers Monument, located just the other side of the Slave Market Square in 2011.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Ed Slavin
EASlavin@aol.com
PO Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
904-377-4998
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Ed Slavin said; “I look forward to hearing your thoughts.”
THE SILENT FOXES...
I’m still thinking the same thoughts I was thinking yesterday Ed, and it makes me wonder why you would address your appeal for a new monument to the same SILENT foxes that not only violate local Civil Rights at the drop of a penny, but also con and lie their young citizens into a war for profiteering for the benefit of those same self anointed elite few?
Before we tackle problems with past monuments we need to tackle the problems with today’s ‘monumental’ corruption makers! You can not build a worthwhile house in a field of slime.
My thoughts yesterday...
ASK NOT; “WHERE WERE THEY”, ASK RATHER; “WHERE ARE THEY?”
Where were they? As to the silence of the past players and city official movers and shakers in Saint Augustine you rightly point out their cowardly past silence and then contrast that with your on going assertion that things have changed, I ask you now then, if things have changed, “Where are they now?”
Where are the present city official movers and shakers on our many current Civil Rights violations, specifically those of Michelle O’Connell? Why are these individuals that you now color as ‘pillars’ of the community so silent?
Where is the outrage?
Where is the call for equality?
Where is the call for honesty?
Where is the call for justice?
Could it be that their past collusion with David Shoar in the on going pattern and practice of usurping the ‘Rule of law’ for Civil Rights violations that benefited their wealthy merchant class runs so deep that they must now bite their tongues when he so egregiously takes the law into his own hands and acts as God, judge and jury for his cop buddies?
I believe that Jeremy Banks is a murderer and that David Shoar clearly obstructed justice. But even those with a TV propaganda instilled bias of rogue cop love will admit that there is a rotten smell here and at a minimum we should have impanelled a grand jury long ago. Why not? Why The stonewall? Why the cowardly silence?
I ask again. Why the cowardly silence; Joe Boles, Nancy Sikes-Cline, Donald Crichlow, Leanna Freeman, Roxanne Horvath, John P. Regan, Timothy A Burchfield, et.al.?
Why are you ALL so silent?
Is this about A Cover Up?
Systemic Corruption?
Misogyny?
Arrogance?
Rogue Cops?
Collusion?
Murder?
Conspiracy?
Blackmail?
Fear Mongering?
Labor And Price Fixing?
Hijacked Government?
Theft Of The Public Commons?
Social Collapse?
Class War?
Or is it about All Of Them?
And maybe you are all so silent because in reality you are not pillars of the community, maybe in reality you really are all killers of the community...
The world is watching, the audience will grow ever larger...
What ever happened to moral self examination?
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