[Brenda]

It is also our right to not wanting to be confronted with it everyday. Maybe just because of the same reason...

[RUEZ]

Brenda Brenda:

It is also our right to not wanting to be confronted with it everyday. Maybe just because of the same reason...

I have a redneck neighbour that leaves car parts and garbage all over his front lawn. That's offensive. A memorial to your dead son should offend no one.

[Yogi]

Brenda Brenda:

It is also our right to not wanting to be confronted with it everyday. Maybe just because of the same reason...

So what do you do whenever you pass by a church, or other 'marked' building used for worshipping God?

[Brenda]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Brenda Brenda:

It is also our right to not wanting to be confronted with it everyday. Maybe just because of the same reason...

I have a redneck neighbour that leaves car parts and garbage all over his front lawn. That's offensive. A memorial to your dead son should offend no one.

It would if it reminded me of my dead child. Ever thought of that?
A memorial should be private in my opinion.

[Brenda]

Yogi Yogi:

Brenda Brenda:

It is also our right to not wanting to be confronted with it everyday. Maybe just because of the same reason...

So what do you do whenever you pass by a church, or other 'marked' building used for worshipping God?

What does God have to do with this?

[PENATRATOR]

lily lily:

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

lily lily:

Or maybe we should all erect such memorials on our front lawns?

Well if you are ever unfortunate enough to have the cards dealt to you that she had to her, that would be your right to do, after all her son wore a uniform and was prepared to defend that right.

how about mothers who have lost babies? People who lost a parent? Sibling?

Or is it just soldiers who "deserve" to be memorialized in such a fashion?

Whoops, caught you on an anti military mood again. Well Lily this mother DID lose her baby, the fact he also wore a uniform makes no difference, I think I saw you mention before being a parent, not sure what your take on things are, but my 4 year old and three week old will BOTH be my babies, until the day they plant me, she honours him on her private property, not sure why you have issue with that. People do actually memorialize their lost loved ones through accidents on the highway, as you discussed earlier in the thread over your disdain for them doing such things.
Should someone not wish to do so, well that works for them, that is their right and method of greiving their unfortunate, loss, some people get tattoo's, I could really careless, to each their own, question is, why do you?

[RUEZ]

Brenda Brenda:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Brenda Brenda:

It is also our right to not wanting to be confronted with it everyday. Maybe just because of the same reason...

I have a redneck neighbour that leaves car parts and garbage all over his front lawn. That's offensive. A memorial to your dead son should offend no one.

It would if it reminded me of my dead child. Ever thought of that?
A memorial should be private in my opinion.

Memorials are never private. That's kind of the idea of the memorial. If a dead soldiers memorial reminds someone of their dead child I suggest they don't drive by any cemetaries, or hospitals.

[ridenrain]

Lily: I swear you'd be the neighbor complaining about the noise of the kids playing street hockey.

[Bodah]

I can't believe this has turn into a debate to what should be allowed on the front of your lawn.


Later ,

[PENATRATOR]

Brenda Brenda:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Brenda Brenda:

It is also our right to not wanting to be confronted with it everyday. Maybe just because of the same reason...

I have a redneck neighbour that leaves car parts and garbage all over his front lawn. That's offensive. A memorial to your dead son should offend no one.

It would if it reminded me of my dead child. Ever thought of that?
A memorial should be private in my opinion.

There you go,
'in your opinion". I pray you have not experienced what she did, but the fact is, SHE DID. This is how she wants to remember HER son on HER property, God forbid someone fly a Canadian flag on their front lawn.

[RUEZ]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Lily: I swear you'd be the neighbor complaining about the noise of the kids playing street hockey.

Actually that would be me. I hate noisy neighbours. Damn kids on my lawn.

[Mustang1]

Sad. Whether someone agrees with the politics of military missions or not, soldiers, or their memories should be above it. The American experience in Vietnam was a good illustration of what happens when partisan politics and agendas target soldiers.

Perhaps its a random act of stupid vandalism, but if its not, then the shame increases ten fold.

[Bodah]

RUEZ RUEZ:

ridenrain ridenrain:

Lily: I swear you'd be the neighbor complaining about the noise of the kids playing street hockey.

Actually that would be me. I hate noisy neighbours. Damn kids on my lawn.

I like people, I just don't want to live next to them.

[RUEZ]

Bodah Bodah:

I like people, I just don't want to live next to them.

Amen to that.

[Brenda]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Brenda Brenda:

RUEZ RUEZ:

I have a redneck neighbour that leaves car parts and garbage all over his front lawn. That's offensive. A memorial to your dead son should offend no one.

It would if it reminded me of my dead child. Ever thought of that?
A memorial should be private in my opinion.

Memorials are never private. That's kind of the idea of the memorial. If a dead soldiers memorial reminds someone of their dead child I suggest they don't drive by any cemetaries, or hospitals.

I think their is a HUGE difference between cemetaries, hospitals and roadside memorials (or yard memorials, in this case)