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# Letter: Inappropriate to name park after war hero
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-inappropriate-park-war-hero/
- Published: 2015-01-31T14:20:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-17T19:25:15.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, government, Joe Gandara, Kathryn Kosmeya-Dodge, letters to the editor, Santa Monica, stewart resmer, war honors, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 13:37

Editor:

I do not support the naming of parks after any war hero. I am a deeply committed pacifist. Name the park Peace Park. The war heroes have their honors from our government.

A recentletter stating that not naming the park after Joe Gandara "not only dishonors the city, it dishonors the man Joe Gandara" is untrue and invalid, bordering on the absurd.

I hope the City continues to choose names like Tongva Park for our parks, honoring the Native Americans.

Name the new park Peace Park. That would be a change in our war-mongering country. We don't even have a Department of Peace, just a war department.

I mean no disrespect to Joe Gandara or his family, but Americans need to learn that not all of us believe in war or support it.

Kathryn Kosmeya-Dodge  
*Santa Monica*