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Vandal damages Vietnam veterans memorial in Dorchester

By adamg on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 1:40pm

State Police report they are looking for whoever cut up an American flag, threw a brick at the monument and caused extensive damage to the landscaping at the memorial, on Morrissey Boulevard by Dorchester Bay.

Photo of some of the damage.

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Dorchester
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Morrissey Boulevard


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By anon on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 1:49pm.

GET 'EM!! GET 'EM!! GET 'EM!! AND GET 'EM GOOD!!!

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By plt3012 on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 3:19pm.

In addition to anger; I'm sad too. What's the 'benefit?' What's the message? This is akin to tipping over headstones in a cemetery.

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By anon on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 4:23pm.

Caught the idiot. Jailed him

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By Bob Leponge on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 9:28pm.

What's the 'benefit?' What's the message?

I'm assuming the message is the same as the message delivered by a person shouting incoherently in the street.

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By Gary C on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 4:27pm.

The report on WBZ said they think someone used a chain saw to cut up the bushes. That's not just a couple of drunks acting like jerks. WTF?

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By jmeltzer on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 5:24pm.

Someone's seriously disturbed.

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By Sonicyouth on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 7:36pm.

Cowardly act

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By anon on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 9:28pm.

In the middle of nowhere.

Throw the book at the vandals and then move the memorial to a more respectful spot where this would be much less likely to happen.

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By John Costello on Sat, 10/27/2018 - 6:10pm.

The Memorial was a locally done work in the early 1980's done by a group of area civic minded people and vets.

The money was raised mostly privately in bits and pieces and the MDC allowed the use of what was just a pile of grass on the side of Morrissey Boulevard for the work.

Granite was chosen to contrast with the then all red brick UMass to the rear of the memorial across the cove. The design was simple because local working and lower middle class people can't grab Maya Lin or Robert Stern off of the street and ask them for a handout.

Dot was not a wealthy place by any means in the 80's and the concept of a memorial was still a touchy subject. I rarely give credit to 70's South Boston but they, owing to the huge amount of people from there who had served in Vietnam on a per capita basis, were the first place to erect a memorial to those who had served in Vietnam. Its over in M Street Park and was put into place well before the Korean War memorial at Castle Island. The Dorchester memorial was a reflection of the efforts of those affected by the war locally.

If you can think of another place in Dorchester to put such a memorial, then get going on it.

Until then be careful how you throw around the term half ass, please. A memorial is for thinking, not instagraming

Your callous comments disrespect the men and women who worked to get this project done.

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By John Costello on Sat, 10/27/2018 - 6:30pm.

Their names are on the "half-assed" memorial.

http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/search/results/start/1/HOME_RECRD/DORC...

I am by no means some gung ho military guy, far from it, but back off of disrespecting their lives and those who tried to have people remember them.

Not everyone who was from Dot who was killed has their name on the memorial either. I remember one family who lived across from Franklin Field whose son was killed. 20 years after he was killed his mother had not touched one thing in his room from the day he left. She lived with that pain.

So, maybe you can back up on the drive by critique a bit.

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