Exactly.
These things are supposedly beloved, but the population irresponsibly leave it to these freaks from the internet to be the face?
I’d be beating feet down to the local courthouse and suing the beetles out of the municipality for not showing the prescribed honors that must be extended to any Veteran memorial when moving, storing, transferring, conveying, etc. etc., especially those on historical registers.
Governors have to quickly make declarations to protect historical monuments in all of their cities.