Representatives of the some 125,000 young people who fled the US to Canada rather than be drafted during the Vietnam War have proposed a commemorative sculpture, to be built in Canada. Early attempts to move this idea along were blocked when US Veteran's groups and others threatened to organize boycotts against the Canadian community where the work was to be sited.

But the organizers are trying again it seems. Read this story on MSNBC, and take the online poll on whether such a sculpture is "appropriate". (Not sure what appropriate means actually...) Nearly 8000 people had taken the poll when your correspondent chanced on this.

«“It is very important educationally that we have specific peace monuments,” said Isaac Romano, an American who immigrated to Canada and now lives in British Columbia’s Kootenay region where many U.S. war resisters settled.»

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