better not take down this statue

[calimac]

It's George and Eleanor McGovern, in front of the McGovern Library, dedicated in 2006 on the campus of Dakota Wesleyan University, where they both were students, in Mitchell, South Dakota.

I'm not making any trips myself, but I can be vicarious. My brother is driving through South Dakota, and last night he phoned me from Sioux Falls, which he reported to have nothing much of interest except the smell of cow lots. He mentioned he'd be passing through Mitchell today, and I said, "That's George McGovern's home town, you know," so we hastily checked to see if there was anything commemorating that fact, and found this. And here we are, and here is the visual record of his visit there today. We collect presidential historical sites, and there's room in our interest for a few should-have-beens.

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[voidampersand]

A WW II hero who was demonized for being against the war in Vietnam. If he were alive today, he'd be demonized as an anti-fascist.

[sturgeonslawyer]

My current Zoom background is a variation on that sign - the main difference being that instead of "Water is life" it says "Kindness is everything".