Plans unveiled for Vietnamese diaspora memorial in Fields Corner

By adamg on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 10:28am

The Dorchester Reporter posts renderings of the proposed memorial at Town Field.

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nice idea, wrong location

By anon on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 1:33pm.

Put it on Charles Street in front of the VietAid Center. They're not the first immigrants to make a home in Dorchester, and won't be the last.

Charles St isn't a very

By CuteUsername on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 12:12pm.

Charles St isn't a very visible location, Town Field is. And it's not like any memorial that goes in the park has to encompass everyone and everything, no memorial does that.

Not complete

By Lanny Budd on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 1:49pm.

without a bronze Dapper O'Neil in there somewhere.

Two Things

By John Costello on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 2:15pm.

1. This is a great initiative and a beautiful design.

2. Dapper grew up in Roxbury and lived in Roslindale between the Square and the Pleasant Cafe. Why would something like this be put in Dot? If you are referring to Dapper's Dot Day racist tirade30 or so years ago, it showed how little he knew about Dot in the early 90's because he wasn't from there.

2.

By MyManMyMelo on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 4:01pm.

Is irrelevant

All of it

The red line bridge

By anon on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 2:21pm.

Over Dorchester Avenue should be repainted to ' Little Saigon' in honor of the Vietnamese refugees who fought bravely with our troops during the Vietnam war.

I like that design. It looks

By Don't Panic on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 1:02am.

I like that design. It looks like a tree symbolizing the Vietnamese community taking root there.