Robert J. Reidy, 85, a longtime resident of Shrewsbury, died peacefully Thursday, March 23, 2023 in his home. His wife of 37 years, Carolyn S. (Jaworski) Reidy passed away in 2002.
Many of us may still remember how the great Athenian statesman Pericles proposed to melt the gold from the statue of Athena, patron goddess of the city, when the war against Sparta was exhausting all of Athens’s funds. Which leads us to think about how a symbol can elicit such strong emotional responses from the nation’s citizens when it is at the risk of being desecrated.