Palisades Park monument to 'comfort women' stirs support, anger

The stone with the copper plaque in front of the Palisades Park library is only a few feet tall, but its dedication to the “comfort women” — Asians reportedly forced into sexual slavery before and during World War II — is gaining widespread attention.

Lobbying efforts have even reached the White House in the form of petitions created on its “We the People” website.

One of those petitions, asking President Obama to remove the monument, has gained so much momentum that after about two months on the site, there are more than 32,000 signatures — meeting the threshold of 25,000 signatures within 30 days that merit an official response.

There is also a petition asking the president to preserve the monument as a “symbol of the bloody history of Korea.” That has gathered 4,270 signatures.

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