It’s happened again. Just days after town workers were ordered to clean spraypaint off of Brattleboro’s Civil War monument, someone has defaced the memorial to the town’s fallen - again.

Someone scrawled PC graffiti in black spray paint on the Brattleboro veterans’ monument. While the act was condemned, the sentiment supposedly behind it was on people’s minds over Memorial Day. So - is tearing down statutes honoring Confederate war dead also “identity erasure” and “committing genocide?” How about taking down an historical mural in Burlington? Getting rid of Columbus Day?

Keeping faith with residents and the memory of the town’s war dead, the Town of Brattleboro ordered municipal workers to remove graffiti from the local war memorial.

Someone scrawled the Brattleboro veterans’ monument with “POC lives matter too.” POC stands for People of Color. The normally tolerant Town of Brattleboro is not ignoring this act of desecration.

Could it be that bored young people no longer spending time in classrooms are trying their hand at ‘urban art’?

Pretty classy Ivy League stuff, here. Good thing controversial sociologist Charles Murray won’t be speaking to the Leaders of Tomorrow at Middlebury College later on this month - can’t imagine what (this hopefully small percentage of destruction-prone) Middlebury students would have done to him.

Nationwide, the offices of presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg are being vandalized. Burlington’s is no exception. But - who’s doing it, and why?
 

The musician who defaced a supposedly non-inclusive $100,000 mural on Church Street, Burlington in the dead of night while disguised has had his record expunged. And the whole thing is good publicity for his next record project.

A spokesperson for the United State Post Office has confirmed August 20 social media reports that the American flag at the Main Street, Brattleboro post office and federal courthouse was stolen, vandalized, torn, and then hung from a local bridge. Stupid vandalism of political statement?