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ARRL's "Diamond Terrace" Memorial
On Mar 22, 9:10 pm, "AF6AY" wrote:
On Mar 22, 3:04?pm, wrote: On Mar 22, 11:05 am, "David Stinson" wrote: ARRL's "Diamond Terrace" Memorial I do NOT understand this "fad" of placing bricks on the GROUND to memorialize someone. ?I am not about to memorialize anyone about whom I care or whom I respect by placing their name on the ground where thoughtless people wipe dog-poop off their shoes and spit their gum. ?I don't know who first thought of this fad (and Lord, I hope it's a "passing fad"), but it's a bad idea and I would never, ever do it. Build a wall with the bricks, or anything else other than a "walk on you daddy" place. 73 David S. Could be like a Vietnam Vets memorial - in black and below ground level. No...it is supposed to be a "playground" according to N2EY. [see RRAM recent post] :-( I try not to read too much of him. It's bad ju-ju. Actually, it is just a small money-income-producing scheme by MY amateur radio organization (I joined) disguised as a "memorial." NOT a good choice in my opinion. I side with David Stinson: Make it a WALL, something that is upright, something one can be eye-to-eye with. NOT something to look down upon or to walk over. But, putting callsigns on the bricks? Some of those callsigns are (and have been) reassigned to later, living radio amateurs by the FCC. What then? As time progresses more of that will happen and all amateur radio license grantees do NOT "own their calls." Mike Deignan will attest to that. Someone at the ARRL (perhaps a cardinal in the Church of St. Hiram?) got delusions of grandeur when trying to gen up some extra cash inflow. They should have thought SERIOUSLY about it beforehand. I realize that every organizations needs cash-flow to operate, but maybe callsign police badges would be a better way to go. What's going to happen when the ARRL decides to remodel and the bricks end up at the landfill? "LIke" the Vietnam Memorial in DC? Good Lord! "Like" as in -rejected- by many who served. But it's all they've got, so now some embrace it. Amateur radio is NOT MILITARY SERVICE and NO ham has to put their LIFE into defending the Constitution of the ARRL! :-( 73, Len ex-RA16408336 Jim served in other ways... No? |
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