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Originally Posted by Sliver
Tell that to the memorial on southbound Deerfoot at the Southland overpass. That memorial has been up for 25 years. It's totally obnoxious and selfish.
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That's been gone for awhile, but I've always identified with it as a nearly life long Calgarian. To me that memorial represented a young, innocent Calgary brought into the present, beyond the loss of an officer to a senseless tragedy. I think there's some meaning in many of us in our thirties knowing exactly who his name is and what happened.
We're older, colder and less connected now as a city, but that was always a reminder to me of what Calgary was and more importantly a life lost (yes, I know lives are lost everyday, but our brains are wired to give meaning to individual events and people, and that's one for me, and if you think you're different you're likely fooling yourself).