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I wish they had video of the monument in its “tool shed” configuration. It doesn’t look to be the kind of structure that would be built to have a door.
Seems like it would be easier to build a brand new tool shed or pool-changing booth from scratch than to relocate a 70-something-year-old structure across town, especially if that structure wasn’t even designed for the purpose.
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Have you seen the price of lumber recently?
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So unlike most war monuments, this lists everybody that served, not just those who died. I wonder whether it went missing because there was an intention to replace it with a more permanent monument of stone or concrete.
Its literally a shed. The names on the sides looks brand new. In the intervening 60 years, they could have just built a new shed.
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It does seem a bit weird. You lost the wooden memorial structure and then forgot about it? And can’t build another because???
Lest we Forgot.
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