Letters: Better Care Needed for Broadway War Memorial

Bill,

I have been fighting with the City of Gloucester City about the VETERNS MEMORIAL at Broadway and Monmouth Street for a long time about the lighting; the lights are always out. The City representatives tell me they care for it. Yet whenever I check it at night the lights for our great FLAG are always never lit.

I got tired of complaining and purposely waited 5 months until I could not take anymore and went back and complained and it still took 4 more weeks before they changed about $4 WORTH OF LIGHT BULBS.

It seems to me it’s only when a function takes place that the politicians show up so they can get noticed and maybe get their picture in the news.

Those men on those walls gave their life so we can enjoy the freedoms of today. As a war veteran I go to that wall constantly picking up trash and complaining but it fall on deaf ears. The city always finds money for its pet projects are the men on that wall not worth a few light bulbs and a little more care?

And what about my brother MARINE MARK RYAN, the man gave his LIFE and they can\’t keep his monument in the light at night. They tell me they care and take good care of that place but it has been months since MARC’s lights have been on at night. Sometimes those light lights burn all day and yet are out at night. I would urge ALL veterans to always visit the wall and not just drive by these MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DESERVE BETTER CARE.