Yeah, yeah. I know. First the CUPE signs and now this. Because you just know these are going to get defaced somehow.
Blah blah blah “Is nothing sacred to you?” blah blah. In a word: No. Nothing is sacred to me, and memorializing war and the people who make it is pretty far down on my list of hypothetical candidates. THAT SAID: all of these were either (a) taken in exchange for a [voluntary] donation to the Legion or (b) found discarded or dropped. And I didn’t even take any from the WWI memorial at the Legislature grounds, even though they were just sitting there and nobody was looking*. Because I know how people in this country get about these things (which, P.S., is super-weird to me still).
Anyway. I’m going to cover them all in lead white oil ground and paint them orange.
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* Around the memorial is maybe another story, but whatever. They would have been vacuumed up by the groundskeepers in about 37 seconds if I hadn’t interceded.