According to a story from CNSNews, a statue to honor fallen war hero Danny Dietz in his hometown of Littleton, Colo. has drawn criticism.
Dietz was a Navy Seal who was killed in combat in Afghanistan two years ago. The statue honoring him shows Deitz holding a rifle. This raised the concerns of two women, including Emily Cassidy who believes that Littleton has a "stigma" due to the Columbine shootings from 1999.
According to CNSNews:
No one objected to honoring Dietz for his heroism, insisted Emily Cassidy, a mother of two children in Littleton. What she objected to was a statue of a soldier, holding a weapon, located across the street from an elementary school and near two other schools.
"It should be used as a learning tool. Don't just pluck it down in the middle of children," Cassidy told Cybercast News Service. "In their eyes, it's just a nine-foot guy with a gun."
Other concerned Littleton citizens, including Wilfred J. Wimpe, agrees with Cassidy's ideas and states the statue can cause confusion.
"We do have a stigma here," Wimpe said. "Also, I'm a moron. I can't tell the difference between a war hero who fought and died for his country and a couple of sick, deranged, murdering mental cases. If I can't tell the difference, how can I explain it to my children?"
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