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General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
(11-14-2016, 01:05 PM)MidTowner Wrote: That's a very sad decision on the part of the School Board for so many reasons. It's shocking that the trustees are so lacking in basic common sense.

(11-14-2016, 01:38 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Maybe with proper messaging, even these can be good reminders. I don't like seeing guns or military items on display because it feels like glorifying combat.

I do follow politics enough to know that in Parliament with the speaker, there is a mace, meant to show order and rule-following, but indeed it is a mace, a weapon. If things like this LAV are shown in ways that suggest "we are glad to retire this and its children from use", that's one thing. It's a bit harder when it looks like it could rightly just drive off into a battle any second.

Apart from recognizing our veterans and armed forces, it feels more like a reminder of the reality of armed conflict to me.  Not something that one would seek to keep hidden, istm.
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RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - by panamaniac - 11-14-2016, 03:28 PM

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