(December 13, 2022 at 1:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 13, 2022 at 1:17 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Thomas Paine deserves to be listed among America's Founding Fathers, and, yes, Congress can do useful things at times! In addition, he doesn't come across as sitting with a corn cob stuffed up his ass in his portraits.
How is this useful? How does a ‘commemorative work’ make anyone’s life better? According to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial...omas_Paine there’s already plenty of ‘commemorative works’ honouring Paine.
Boru
President Theodore Roosevelt referred to Tom Paine as being a "Filthy Little Atheist", and so, the proposed memorial does justice to rehabilitating Mr. Paine's image as a Founding Father of our Republic. In addition, Tom Paine was basically forced into exile, and after death, was buried in an unmarked grave, and so, the memorial will provide a prominent site of posthumous remembrance.
