Pothole Hero

Whenever a soldier is killed in battle, the body is sent to CFB Trenton where the coffin is given a hero's welcome, and is then promptly put into a hearse and driven to downtown Toronto for an autopsy. This 172km stretch of highway 401 is apparently dubbed the "Highway of Heroes" (of which I had no idea until yesterday). Now there is talk and an online petition to officially rename it. How ridiculous.

These soldiers, who do a job that I could never dream of doing, and who give their lives overseas protecting George Bush's interests, deserve to be remembered and commemorated - but not like this. They deserve better than to have some busy, congested, accident prone highway named in their honor. It just sounds wrong too. Imagine the news reports:

There was an accident today on the Highway of Heroes, just outside of Oshawa.

The East bound collector lanes on the Highway of Heroes are jammed. You should stay in the express lanes if you can. The Highway of Heroes opens up just past Kennedy.

This business is located just at the corner of Highway of Heroes and Brock Rd.

Can we not come up with something better than this?

Seriously.