How should the late congressman John P. Murtha be remembered in bronze?
| Ironically? Sarcastically? Scornfully?? |
Should it be with a smile or a furrowed brow? With the look of lawmaker worried about legislation or a veteran politician on the campaign trail? Should a hand be contemplatively placed in one pocket or outstretched to greet a voter?
Hands up and cuffed?
| Don't forget to include thirty pieces of silver in one of the hands. |
Those are the kinds of decisions that face organizers of a campaign in Johnstown to raise $150,000 to commission a statue of Murtha, who as the longtime chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending was one of the most powerful lawmakers of the past half-century.
How about in a torn Marine Corps uniform, stripped of decorations, with a broken sword at his feet? |
