Your city has decided to build a statue or monument to honor a famous person in your country?

[knowmeyourself]

Whom would you choose?

Give reasons for your answer :)

[tohrment]

Argh. I honestly don't know. We don't have any key figures that really stand out to me - they are all so flawed in my opinion (and not in an endearing way). I can't think of anyone who isn't already memorialised!

I'd probably choose Fiona Wood. She's a plastic surgeon from my hometown who's made huge contributions to burn research (especially after the Bali Bombing). She invented "spray-on-skin". Nice lady, too.

[knowmeyourself]

Nice! :)

[tohrment]

TY for BA :)

[knowmeyourself]

xoxo :)

[cun7n1nja]

I have no idea, but my town has a random Benjamin Franklin statue in the middle of our downtown city square, haha. They just put it in one day and I was like WTF? It's cool but it seems pretty random. =P

[knowmeyourself]

Haha :)

[elements]

Jack Layton.

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[joshuadwa]

Robocop

For those of you who don't get the joke... There is a city in the states (I think in Michigan?) Where robo cop was set at. The mayor in order to increase travel there started a poll as to whom they should erect a statue of... The town overwhelmingly voted for robocop... hahah

[Brando]

Even though there is one already in the country, I'd go with Thomas Jefferson. TJ is a hero- an intellectual, our country's framer, and a person with beyond impressive qualities :)

[Anonymous4Ever]

We already have a few statues in my city. The last one I remember that was erected was to a famous architect that had a lot of influence on the style of the city.

[Anonymous4Ever]

*for

[Kain6th]

Teddy Roosevelt. One of the heads on mt rushmore is teddy, but we need his whole body darn it! :-O

[WoIIie]

Justin Bieber.

Hey, it would be hilarious to see how people would vandalize it.

[elements]

I imagine there would be a flock of young girls standing around it to protect the statue from vandalism. And I wouldn't be surprised if they turned violent to keep people away. O_o

[LetsGoSailing]

One Justin Bieber is enough...but vandalizing it would be a nice stress-reliever link

[kheserthorpe]

Terry Fox. Yeah, there's a statue of him somewhere else, but I don't care.

[stevo2]

MLK, Jr. Enough said.

[PANDAmonium]

Samuel L Jackson obviously

[zickzack]

Karl Marx