Big time bull being shoveled here. The complaint in the OP is very clear. Read it, the first sentence
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Not sure if public funds should be spent on a monument or not
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I'm not sure public funds should be used either.
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It is funds probably from Orlando area taxpayers
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Truly a shame. The public money appears to have been from the tourism tax. While that didn't come from Orlando's citizens, it certainly wasn't used *for* Orlando's citizens either.
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then I point out nobody here complained about public funding of other memorials, you have the audacity to object. The OP and others mentioned an issue with whether it has or has not been built, but his observation very clearly is that public funding was provided.
The larger project has for now failed as the land owner did not sell the property to the city and instead wanted to go forward with their own plans but ultimately were unable to raise enough private funding to build the hoped for museum. It is complicated.
What is not complicated is that public funding was provided as seed money for the project the completion of which required much larger infusion of private money. That didn't happen.
As for honor vs memorialize. Point made that memorialize is more specific, but use of the
word honor is entirely appropriate