When cemented in the past is a good thing (Drive Day 71 minus 14 years)

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Managua: photo by Gary Geboy

I need to see these monuments. In the midst of abject poverty and the stifling heat that destroys ambitions, these memorials shout aloud that something did change. I wonder what would happen if this were how wars were memorialized in North America. Maybe we wouldn’t need to tear them down.

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Cash for guns, then cemented in place

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