Tsk. Name calling? That’s always a sure sign of a weak argument. Btw, the trees are privately owned and usually donated. Don’t let an inconvenient fact get in the way.

Um… *A* tree in exchange for human lives saved. A tree that is specifically grown for the job of giving thanks to the city of Boston. What would you propose as a suitable alternative?

Dementia and functional illiteracy… not a great combination.

Tsk. Name calling? And making snide personal assumptions to boot? That’s a very impressive way to sabotage your argument,
which (congrats) you have failed to make. There is an extensive process for selecting the Boston tree and families volunteer their trees,often in honour of friends or family.

🧵To complicate things, the jammed relief trains from Boston and Eastern Canada were delayed by snow-covered train tracks near the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border. Luckily, as is still the case today, storms bring communities together.

🧵gave blizzard-like conditions, and by the end of day, 40 centimetres of snow had fallen over the city.
Although relief efforts had already gotten underway the day before, thousands were still injured and homeless, trapped under rubble.

On the morning of Dec. 7, 1917, snow began to fall on the ruins of Halifax.
By the afternoon, temperatures dropped to
–4 C as the winds intensified from the northwest to 55 km/h, with gusts over 90 km/h, producing wind chills of –15 C. A combination of blowing and drifting snow

I guess you need to read/learn about the Halifax Explosion to (possibly?) understand the devastation, the deaths &
injuries. www.novascotiamuseumofhealthcare.ca/filemanager/...
In this case, a debt of gratitude is repaid by the donation of a tree. That’s why it’s cut.
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It’s not just for a holiday. The tree is in grateful thanks for the aid and assistance Boston sent to Halifax after the Mont Blanc blew up and devastated Halifax on December 6, 1917. The blast was the largest, man-made explosion at the time.