Letter: It’s time to remove reference to Myles Standish from State Seal – The Patriot Ledger

Robert Montgomery Thomas| The Patriot Ledger

To the editor:

The Massachusetts Legislature, in its grand and glorious wisdom, is considering banning or has banned Native American figures, caricatures and names from appearing as mascots and logos for all school sports teams throughout the commonwealth.

Meanwhile, they intend to keep the figure of Myles Standishs arm brandishing a broadsword above the head of the indigenous native on the State Seal with some holier-than-thou Latin verbiage that basically means, Peace… our way or the highway.

And for Standishs bravery in assassinating the-then tribal leaders under a flag of truce, a massive state park near Plymouth was named in his honor.

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The solution is to just remove the offensive arm and broadsword from the State Seal and re-name the state park for someone truly honorable, like those who were butchered.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY THOMAS

Weymouth

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