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Okay, this is painfully obvious. This is a town with ONE reference to veterans, the obscurely named "Memorial Boulevard" AND the town hosted the debut of Willie Mays?

The solution is obvious. Rename the Boulevard for Willie Mays and get their collective a$$es in gear and build a memorial (or three) to their veterans. This is not an either/or proposition. They owe the vets a better memorial and they should certainly honor a baseball icon like Willie. How dull are these folks? Times a' wasting.

Here's more from the article in the Baltimore Sun...

***....Now Hagerstown is in the uncomfortable position of once again having slighted Mays - something that has left bitter feelings and accusations of racial motivations a month before the May 17 municipal election.

Breichner, who is 73, like Mays, and grew up in the racially segregated city, said he believes the street-name flap reflects lingering racial divisions. After his proposal was dropped Tuesday night, Breichner told the Hagerstown Herald-Mail: "I think part of it was because of his race. I just feel bad about that."

Most opponents who signed petitions and protested at council hearings in recent months were white, according to participants. But veterans took offense at the mayor's remarks.

Ron Hovis, 70, a Korean War veteran, called it "nonsense" and pointed out that veteran groups had proposed alternatives, including renaming other streets or Municipal Stadium.

Hovis blamed Breichner, saying "he put the race issue in it," and claimed the mayor was making a politically correct move "to get black votes." Breichner, a Democrat, is locked in a tight race for a second term against Republican challenger Richard Trump and write-in candidate Robert E. Bruchey II, a former mayor. ....***

Okay, this is painfully obvious. This is a town with ONE reference to veterans, the obscurely named "Memorial Boulevard" AND the town hosted the debut of Willie Mays?

The solution is obvious. Rename the Boulevard for Willie Mays and get their collective a$$es in gear and build a memorial (or three) to their veterans. This is not an either/or proposition. They owe the vets a better memorial and they should certainly honor a baseball icon like Willie. How dull are these folks? Times a' wasting.

This is an obvious opportunity for a win-win scenario. Maybe they need to get Cal Ripken Jr. involved. He still has major influence with the folks in Maryland.

"The solution is obvious. Rename the Boulevard for Willie Mays and get their collective a$$es in gear and build a memorial (or three) to their veterans. This is not an either/or proposition. They owe the vets a better memorial and they should certainly honor a baseball icon like Willie. How dull are these folks? Times a' wasting."

I live in Hagerstown and I have a better idea. You get your city to name one of it's streets after a guy that played ONE game of baseball in it's stadium. We've got bigger problems than Willie Mays in this town. Also, there is more than one memorial here, that particular street was so named after World War I, and most of us would like to keep it that way. regardless of the spin the liberal Baltimore Slum puts on it.