If only statues could vote. They are the perfect American citizens. Their virtues are unassailable, their faults so easily excused. They call us to . . . look at them! Their gaze and glare never waver, more resolute than the desk behind which the president sits.
Why have we passed them by for so many years without a thought, and allowed the angry mobs of pigeons to defecate on our beloved heroes?
They are so much stronger than we are. They have immunity from viruses and pandemics without waiting for needless antibiotics. They never march in protest or require tear gas and the military to be removed from the squares required for photo ops.
Only a stable genius of a leader would devise a plan—in the midst of a health crisis that has killed more than 130,000 Americans and a groundswell for racial and social justice—suggesting that what the nation needs now more than anything else is a “Garden of American Heroes.” A statuary park, to be located at a site to be determined.
Please wake me up and tell me this was all a nightmare.
Bruce Davidson
Portsmouth, N.H.
Note from KBJ: You're deranged, Bruce. Get some help.
