Tue 12 Jun 2007
Last night City Council passed a resolution to provide space for a new monument to honor
Hartford’s war veterans. The monument is to be a big granite pillar. The location of this gigantic glans? Why it’s the beleaguered corner of Broad and Farmington!
First, Perez destroyed the park that was there and then tried to build a school there without the consent of the state. Now Hartford will have another marker to murder and mayhem. The Council was prudent though. There’s a back door for the project: the monument “can be easily relocated if the site is needed for another use in the future.” Once bitten, twice shy with Broad and Farmington, I guess.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
[…] Too busy for a school, but not too busy for a memorial. […]
June 12th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Erecting monuments, renaming highways as memorials, and flying flags at half-mast are all things we can do instead of actually remembering personal sacrifice. Our pandering leaders are turning the cityscape and countryside into a vast thanatopolis, and these eyesores are a lasting tribute to their hypocrisy and ours.
June 12th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Holy Haysus! Just what we need, another granite pigeon crapper. Thanks for the link to our country’s glorious military past. How about a monument to all the poor bastards unlucky enough to have been on the wrong end of our gun barrel diplomacy.
June 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Does Hartford have a statue commemorating the youth who’ve died from street violence?
June 12th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
There is “Silent Wishes” located at 128 Albany Ave. This installation is a grouping of brownstone slabs with the words of gun violence victims etched into the them. Real Art Ways commissioned artist Carl Pope in 1996 to make the installation in response to the gun violence of the mid ’90s.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Maybe the gun makers be willing to donate to such a thing. There’s some big blocks of granite or brownstone in an empty lot off of Albany Avenue. They got messages etched into them. Believe it’s got something to do with untimely deaths. Anybody help us out here with more info?
June 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
You da man, Josh. You must have been reading my cyberthoughts.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Thought so, but wasn’t sure.
Just saying, maybe a prominent display like that, where commuters pass by in droves, would be powerful. Or a monument to those who have untimely deaths because of inadequate healthcare. You all get what I’m saying.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
you want to see a memorial, look into the eyes of Joseph Anzack as he buried his son at Arlington. Print the picture from page A-13 in the Sunday6/3/07 Courant