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Shaw's sword swiped

By adamg on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 1:27pm
Robert Gould Shaw is missing his sword again

Looks like somebody's stolen Robert Gould Shaw's sword again from the memorial across from the State House.

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Beacon Hill
Topics: 
Crime
History
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54th Massachusetts
Beacon Street


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Comments

By lbb on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 1:45pm.

Given what this monument represents, this REALLY pisses me off.

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By dmcboston on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 11:12am.

...there's a decent chance that these idiots have no clue what the monument represents.

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By Rob Not Verified on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 2:10pm.

Is Attorney General Sessions in town by chance?

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By bulgingbuick on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 4:28pm.

sword.

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By downtown-anon on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 2:12pm.

I believe it gets stolen several times a year. It has been started living in Boston in 1999 and I am thinking it was plastic for many years before then.

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By Steve Brady on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 2:13pm.

Yeah, I thought we learned this last time it happened. Though the break in the photo looks substantial.

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By downtown-anon on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 2:50pm.

It has been a long time, but a trick was to walk up this substantial statue and pull on the sword to show how if flexed. And I recall that if flexed all the way back to guard.

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By dmcboston on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 10:41am.

...that I read a while back (maybe the last time it happened?) that it was fiberglass and they generally just keep a bunch of them in stock.

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By ElizaLeila on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 9:11am.

Doesn't that get stolen, as well?

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