'Nobody can believe it': Stouffville residents outraged by plan to replace garden with tank in Memorial Park
'Nobody can believe it': Stouffville residents outraged by plan to replace garden with tank in Memorial Park
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'Nobody can believe it': Stouffville residents outraged by plan to replace garden with tank in Memorial Park
Tanks don't belong in a park.
While this was obviously badly organized, putting a cenotaph from the local legion with a military relic, in a park literally called "Memorial Park" isn't particularly offensive. The problem is just the fact that they decided to replace an existing (recently installed) garden without even informing the volunteers who maintain it.
There's many ways to memorialize. Personally I find the the giant metal hunk of killing and destroying machine in a park context offensive, aesthetically as well as ideologically. But others may take a different view of course.
Make blossoms not war.