Count us among those baffled by Community Board 1’s vote against a request to co-name a street in lower Manhattan in memory of the first city cop killed during the Iraq War.
The reasons given by board members in the majority on the 21-12 vote against posthumously honoring Police Officer James D. Naughton by attaching his name to West Broadway between Lispenard and Canal Sts. were either that it would confuse motorists or be taken for an endorsement of the Iraq War. Those are, respectively, improbable and ridiculous. Numerous city streets have similar co-namings without causing problems. And the belated realization that soldiers who returned from Vietnam and were scorned for having served in an unpopular war were done a severe disservice should have taught us by now the injustice of blaming those who obeyed the call to duty.
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