What am I missing? Is it that it's a bunny or because it's in the vicinity of the memorial? It eludes me.

i already typed it. it is gone.

Shhhh...be vewy, vewy, quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.

Danged critters ate my okra down to nubbins!

These people need to lighten up. With all due respect to veterans, who cares about a rabbit sculpture being nearby. What a waste of time. You want to bitch about something, bitch about protesters interfering with funerals.

When Rabbits are outlawed, only outlaws will have Rabbits...

Slow news day....

The sculpture's in a public park? The kids don't seem fearful. Is there something we don't know? What's the real story? Are they finding ceramic bunny droppings over at the memorial each morning???

O. M. G. People really need to take themselves a little more seriously. I mean, there was no mention of heart attacks.

But it was worth it to see the likes of Amanda Grace.

Oh for gosh sakes. Someone needs to get some. What about people in the park selling crack? (I am from Minneapolis, and it's hard to find a park where they don't sell crack at night.) STFU about rabbit statues and find a real issue.

You can check out here what some of the people connected to this "issue" are saying and thinking.

https://www.facebook.com/peter.h.reynolds/posts/460073547356176

Petition/FOX NEWS

http://civic.moveon.org/fox//

You people think this is bunny? Don't you carrot all about this hare-raising invasion of our public parks?

Can't you cotton to the tails of woe these poor citizens are trying to relate?

It's a matter of warren peace I tell you!

I'm not sure if it is wise to offend bunny rabbits. Cross a rabbit, you might get in trouble. As we all know, rabbits are geniuses at using psychological manipulation to torment their enemies (see Bugs Bunny vis-a-vis Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd). They also can be quite physically aggressive (see King Arthur--and Jimmy Carter). Less well-known is the fact that if you inject them with hormones, they grow to giant size and eat people from Arizona (see the wonderfully dreadful 1972 sci-fi film, "Night of the Lepus"). In sum--beware the bunny rabbit!

On a more serious note--I suspect that one could find an underlying "culture war" in the Dedham Bunny Battle. I realize that I may be indulging in stereotyping here, but I am probably pretty safe in guessing that the irate members of these Dedham veterans' groups are cultural conservatives. And as such, they probably have little patience with local artists who create weird stuff and stick it in little hole-in-the-wall galleries where people consume wine and cheese and then go home to watch DVDs with subtitles.

For myself, I frankly am very offended by the attitude of these veterans' groups. The rabbit sculpture seems to be a charming work that has enlivened the park in which it has been placed, and is not in the least bit offensive. Yet, because of its presence, a group of veterans refused to give honor to Dedham's deceased soldiers and sailors. That, to me, is the real slap in the face to Dedham's veterans.

You have got to be kidding. This Frank Curran is just a whiny baby with a persecution complex and a boner for publicity.

http://dedhamglassart.com/

Childs eyes see things we don't: Veterans went to war "for and against" whatever, sometimes whatever is not important, and sometimes the history is informative. but could there be case where too little information would make the "for and against" whatever concept more confusing than it needs to be.

But there definitely is a case for keeping that information as small as possible, and for keeping respectfully quiet.

The rabbit icon for Dedham came with the product of the Dedham Pottery Company, and has of late been seen in as town flag decorations commemorating the town 375th anniversary (1635).

But there not one single shred of circumstantial evidence, by any veteran from 1896 to the current era, gave a single thought to decoration appearing on diner plate, or one hoot of a pottery company, it is trivia where ignorance is expected.

As for history, we fight war for futures and "for and against" whatever.

Well we might as well have this fight, putting aside "keeping respectfully quiet" that needed to keep the peace, and hiding "ignorance is expected" and "saluting those who have served in silence".

It is from the mind of child that asks the question, if is for peace and freedom that we go to war, then why do those to come back from war who are against peace and freedom. The answer the child gets is this "keep quiet eat your peas, and salute the passing parade, speak no more of it".

Why this is so is that serves the call to arms when the war commences, and afterward we need a monument in stone, those who served return and get mute memorial, a parade now and then, and never a question asked.

If you thought that "peace and freedom" was what you were fighting for then why would question the absence of peace and the limits on freedom. Just in case, you missed the returning WWII veterans scratching your heads at the House Un-American activities hearings. On the very heels of war to turn against the concept that shortly before was the justification "peace and freedom".

I know the answer but it's not enough to salute veterans passing by, hoping those standing nearby will be called to serve before you.

The expression "disappear down the rabbit hole" is part of the one sided meaning of words, the words "peace and freedom" have one meaning before and during war but quite a different meaning afterward, whoosh and down the hole the rabbit goes.

Whoosh:

So ahead of time, the next words I write are for the rabbit that has disappeared, and like words that mean one thing onetime one thing a another time another, in this case the rabbit is gone, and those that will serve in the future cannot even see these words, poof they are gone.

For as long as history has existed and in that history its wars, as for as much as those wars cost in treasure, resource, time and lives permanently lost or disrupted there has been this question. Why could not some small fraction of those costs be devoted to the peace rabbit? Is it because the library shelves are filled with books knowledgeable on war and outweigh the unnoticed few the end of the library shelf that gather dust the reader being exhausted by those on war? The only justification for asking this question is that waste we call war, but it seems only that the returning dead have yet to ask that question.

Inside the rabbit hole, I can ask the strangest questions, and unfortunately answer them as will. I have called war a waste, but never mind the costs if only "peace and freedom" were meaningful as the matched bookends of war, then all would not seem so lost. But suppose waste changed its meaning, if waste meant abundance, energy and resource and unlimited wealth and inexhaustible number of service men/women, then the one sidedness of the need for war would be balanced by the need to rid the planet of these abundant resources.

In true rabbit hole profundity I could resolve the before and after dilemma "peace and freedom" is just the cause for war, and as civilization reaches for success by being smart or something like that civilization needs war to quell its ambitions.

Just so at least the rabbits could benefit, from this opus, rabbits like to gnaw small cut branches of a small tree, scrub called "chokecherry" or Amur Chokecherry, (Prunus maackii), harvesting these fresh and place one or two of these red shiny barked sticks in a rabbit cage, will vanish overnight.