Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Okay, so I'm not going to say with certainty that the Latte Stone was the foundation of the Long House, or the not-so-long-house, but have seen drawings and read enough history books to know that scholars think they were foundations of homes and that somewhere in the area of Ho Chi Minh City, the same were used before the great flood 4,000 years ago which is where our supposed ancestors came from, as they(the same place) and if you've done any stomping around in the boonies, you'll have found that there are no lips on the caps that will allow any bougainvilla bush, or any other bush or plant to be grown on the top of that Latte Stone top.
So I wonder each time I pass that triangle that the great airport of Guam is spending realllllly big bucks these days....what the heck was the landscaper thinking when he put the lip on the Latte Stone....was he thinking that it was a decoration and that the decoration needed a plant in the middle of it? And who in tarnation is his supervisor that allowed him to continue to plant more than one....since now most have plants in them. I really think we're just plain stupid and we've all flunked our local history lessons and that we think the Latte Stone is a planter and not what might have been the foundation of a house to keep it off the ground all those years ago when the Taotaomoanas roamed the island.
Heck, maybe that's what we get when we don't give a damn how or who tells our 'story'. Unfortunately, I'll be the only one that makes this comment and no one will care enough to change the planters into what they should have been, a reminder that once, we were a people who built houses on foundations on Latte Stones. Once we were a people who had flying Proas. Once, we had pride in who we were. Now, we have no pride in who we were. Now, we don't even have pride in who we are. If you think for a minute that I'm kidding, just take a look at our school system!