And HOW did this suddenly get politicized?

WHO CARES??????

if that is the case then all those running for or in office should take away from the builders moment

hats off to the builder!

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Message boards return as 9/11 nears
Display erected as response to tragedy
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By Justin Mason (Contact)
Gazette Reporter


Doug Thorpe of Princetown points to one of the original inspirational messages on a 9/11 memorial he erected soon after the September 2001 terror attacks.

PRINCETOWN — The signs are simple, but send a succinct patriotic message: “Land of the Free” and “Home of the Brave.”
Doug Thorpe first painted them in his living room in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He initially erected them at the intersection of Route 7 and Pangburn Road as a visual representation of the patriotism he felt just two days after the World Trade Center collapsed.
“It was just a feeling that was in me to do something,” he said Wednesday. “It was my own patriotic thing to do to show my support.”
Yet the boards came to mean much more to residents and others passing through Princetown. Within days of them going up, hand-written patriotic messages filled just about every inch of the massive boards. Touched by the outpouring, Thorpe decided to add another board, only without any message on it. And within a few days, it was filled too..............................>>>>.......................>>>>.......................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2011/aug/18/0818_boards/