There is already a park nearby that commemorates Farragut. What is the significance of an engraved rock bought by a private organization and dedicated by a man who many in Knox County, when asked, would not know or would confuse with the creator of the library cataloging system? If this one rock really matters, get together and make another marker, put it in the county park, and let the inscription give the exact location of the Admiral's birthplace relative to the rock's position. Or just lie and say that the new position is the birthplace.
I'm really glad your philosophy wasn't prevalent in Philadelphia when the notorious crack was discovered in the Liberty Bell; someone would have melted it down and made a brand spanking new one!
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kroskow writes:
I'm really glad your philosophy wasn't prevalent in Philadelphia when the notorious crack was discovered in the Liberty Bell; someone would have melted it down and made a brand spanking new one!
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