To the Editor:

With regard to the Civil War memorial in Oak Bluffs, I don’t care if the words go or stay. Removing the plaque won’t change the story, though, plinths made blank don’t take it back.

We’ll ask, Who’s that soldier, and why face the dawn, hand over muzzle? Is the chasm really closed? To die a patriot against patriots, a puzzle we have not solved yet. Brother and brother, those freed not free, disowned by ourselves and each other.

 

Bruce Nevin
Edgartown

3 replies on “Can’t change monument’s story”

  2. Part got lost. This is the whole of it:

    I don’t care if the words go
    or stay. Removing the plaque
    won’t change the story though.
    Plinths made blank don’t take it back.

    We’ll ask, who’s that soldier, and why
    face the dawn, hand over muzzle?
    Is the chasm really closed? To die
    a patriot against patriots, a puzzle

    we have not solved yet, brother
    and brother, those freed not free,
    disowned by ourselves and each other,
    altogether blind who will not see.

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