Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the “shoe-icide” reporter who attempted to shame former President Bush with a projectile pair of size tens has been honored as hero in many Middle Eastern communities.

Thousands of Iraqis hit the street to protest his arrest after the incident, an Egyptian man even offered him his 18-year-old daughter to marry him and most recently, an orphanage in Tikrit, Iraq has created an 11 feet high, 8 feet long, copper coated, fiberglass shoe monument to honor both Al-Zaidi and his pair of Ducati Model 271’s now dubbed “The Bye-Bye Bush Shoes.”

The orphanage houses children displayed by Bush’s war in Iraq and the monument will serve as a “gift to the next generation to remember the heroic action by the journalist,” according to Faten Abdulqader al-Naseri, the orphanage director and the shoe’s sculptor, Laith al-Amiri.