School Board lacks integrity
Integrity. That is what the Seattle School Board lacks if it decides to demolish a memorial — Memorial Stadium — to those who gave their lives in service to our country [“The end for Memorial Stadium?,” page one, Nov. 25]. To replace something built to honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion with parking spaces and grass is dishonorable, reprehensible and wrong.
May common sense prevail. May the Seattle School Board show some integrity and do the right thing. Show the public that it is better to fix Memorial Stadium, a monument built to honor brave men and women, than it is to demolish it.
They are not clear where the $206 million to replace it would come from in the midst of a recession, and our soldiers are fighting and dying in two wars. Show us that you care.
— Mike McHugh, Seattle
Move the wall of names to some place nicer
At least one writer seems to feel strongly that a ratty and decaying football field is a glorious memorial to World War II vets [“Do we really need another downtown parking garage?,” Opinion, Northwest Voices, Nov. 29].
I think it’s kind of an insult.
The wall with the names could be moved to some place else nice, where some actual respect for these memories obtains. Perhaps Discovery Park? There are many lovely places in Fort Lawton where this would fit in.
— John Watt, Seattle
A little history of Memorial Stadium
As a former Seattleite, I read with interest The Seattle Times story “Seattle Center, schools reach pact to tear down Memorial Stadium” [Seattletimes.com, Local News, Nov. 25].
The article mentioned former President Harry S. Truman speaking there, and that it is a memorial to the Seattle military lost during World War II.
Readers might also be interested to know that it was from this stadium that KING-TV broadcast its first live television program of the 1948 Seattle high- school-football championship on Thanksgiving Day.
It is also interesting to note that most people at that time did not own a TV set, so that aforementioned broadcast was viewed by most people from the windows and display areas of appliance stores.
— Jim Schiller, Arroyo Grande, Calif.