“I don’t know that much about guns,...
“I don’t know that much about guns, but you’ve got bazookas, you’ve got automatic rifles, you’ve got grenades, and I do not like to see the tools of war in a recreational playground.”
--Colleen Clement, opposing a proposed International Korean War Memorial, which would portray a group of men in combat, at Angels Gate Park in San Pedro.
“You can’t have figures dancing in a field of flowers to remind people that war is horrible.”
--Fran Botwin, a monument proponent.
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