Mayor Menino's office today announced a plan to re-label all 1,285 of Boston's "Hero Squares" so you'll be able to learn more about the people whose names are posted on all those intersections. Plaques that currently list only the person's name will be supplemented with new signs offering some biographical background on the person and a link to additional information online.
The first square to get the new markers is at Mass. Ave. and Columbia Road in Dorchester, named today in honor of Sgt. Alberto D. Montrond:
Sgt. Montrond was killed in the line of duty on February 13, 2006 when a vehicle carrying him and three other soldiers was hit by a land mine north of Deh Rawod, Afghanistan. His family, District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson, Commissioner of Veterans Services Francisco Urena, and other city officials attended the dedication.
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Any word on how they plan
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 4:19pm
on removing Tom's name from the 1mm plus signs! Also this practice should be banned, i'm sure the next Mayor isn't going to hold the seat for 20 years.
Mumbles established a bad practice by plastering his name all over the city, and i would assume the next Mayor elected will also feel entitled to do so.
What crazy is this has never
By Gattaca
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 5:51pm
What crazy is this has never happened in any other city ever!!!
Menino's name is not on these
By Rob
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 9:53am
Menino's name is not on these memorial square signs.
When did i say
By anon
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 10:14am
it was. I was generally speaking about his name on every CITY sign. Read much bra?
So you're saying that your
By MattyC
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 11:27am
So you're saying that your non sequitur implies his lack of reading comprehension? No, anon-bra, no.
This post just inspired me
By chaosjake
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 4:28pm
to do some quick searches of "Daniel D Esposito" of Readville, for whom the hero square nearest me is named. He was a Signalman 2c in the US Naval Reserve in WWII. It turns out that he was killed while aboard a captured Italian sub that was being brought back to the US for training.
Damrell Avenue, in Readville, was renamed Danny Road in his honor in 1955.
A very nice idea that can
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 4:37pm
A very nice idea that can certainly do without a politicians name being attached to said memorial.
At least in my neighborhood
By chaosjake
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 5:32pm
At least in my neighborhood (which happens to be Menino's neighborhood), no politician's name is on the hero square signs. See, for example, this street view, one block from the Menino residence: http://goo.gl/maps/ilaKL
Like times 10
By JohnAKeith
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 5:55pm
Absolutely correct - no reason to mention who was at the g.d. dedication. If you're going to honor the person on the square, don't ruin it by getting all political.
Let's go a step further
By rsybuchanan
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 6:36pm
The list of dignitaries who attended the dedication makes it clear this isn't about commemorating those who have made the ultimate sacrifice at all.
Does the term "dignitaries" still apply if the people so named are completely lacking in dignity?
OK, D.A.
By Suldog
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 3:14pm
That would be "Devil's Advocate".
Might the addition of the names of those who attended the dedication add some luster? Perhaps surviving family members might take pride in saying that "so-and-so attended Johnny's dedication", if the attendee was a high muckety-muck?
Personally, I would prefer no names other than the deceased/honored. But maybe the additional names hold value for some?
Suldog
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Oh Good
By Steve Brady
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 6:28pm
I've never been able to track my guy down. I'm extra curious because we share first names and middle initials.
Crossed fingers
By Kaz
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 6:32pm
I hope they are smart enough to use a QR code for the online link.
Also, I can't wait for QR graffiti that looks official but takes your phone to some NSFW website for the lulz.
So...
By Christopher
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 6:34pm
...no more Circles named as squares?
Thank God, my sense of geometry was outraged...
No more squares becoming villages?
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 6:52pm
I'd like to see the next mayor rescind all that Soviet Potemkin Village shit. They're corners or squares.
I like the village thing.
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 7:06pm
I like the village thing. Makes it easier to tell when someone is a hipster yuppie when they refer to Rozzie Square as Roslindale Village.
Not precisely the same thing
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 10:16pm
Roslindale Village encompasses the entire mini-downtown area -- and "Village" as a geographical designation long predated the invention of yuppies (and, I believe, the term "Roslindale Square"):
http://www.roslindalehistoricalsociety.org/history...
They changed and /or placed new signs in the square
By anon who likes ...
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 10:38am
And at other corners and squares.
The "village" signs aren't on the borders of Roslindale. They're in the Square.
Same with Adam's corner in Dorchester. It was never called Adams village until designated so with signage and a PR campaign.
Bring back the squares!!!
Whuuuut
By supermap
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 10:32pm
The MBTA and MBCR are hipsters?!
It only took Boston what two
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 7:43pm
It only took Boston what two decades to catch up to Cambridge with these signs?
Can't wait to learn about
By Crankycoffey
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 7:56pm
Can't wait to learn about Hugh B. Hines (JP)!
I wish Brookline would do
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 9:09pm
I wish Brookline would do this. I've always been curious as to whom Washington Square is named after.
"The first square to get the
By anon
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 1:46am
"The first square to get the new markers is at Mass. Ave. and Columbia Road in Dorchester, named today in honor of Sgt. Alberto D. Montrond"
Was he from that immediate neighborhood?
I'm glad they're recognizing locals, and contemporary heroes, too. Why did they stick this dedication on an intersection that already has a memorial designation - one people sometimes actually use (Edward Everett Square)?
Are there no other intersections in the area that aren't already named?
Is it necessary or appropriate to give the appearance of supplanting yesterday's heroes?
City does this
By Allstonian
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 9:35am
The city has been renaming these memorial squares for years - one of the things my bitter neighbor is bitter about is the fact that the "square" in Brighton that had been dedicated to her brother was repurposed quite some years back and dedicated to a more recent deceased veteran instead.
paul curran square
By bostnkid
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 8:09am
intersection of market and arlington streets. WWII Adak Alaska.
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