Posted on 03/28/2010 5:13:20 AM PDT by sodpoodle
This isnt a memorial! This looks like a construction site for an unfinished building!
And what the heck is with the ginormous screens. This thing will be a nightmare to maintain and will be meaningless to people 100 years from now.
A simple tasteful statue with a fountain would be more in Ike’s style anyway.
Oh no no no America, US of KKK....we can’t have EIGHTY FOOT COLUMNS! Thas racist!!!! That would be bigger than the Greek Emporer Columns that Zer0 had in Denver and is planning for his palace! No no no, America, US of KKK.....
Planning for the Eisenhower memorial began more than a decade ago....
IMHO he would not have approved of this monumment or its cost to tax-payers.
Of course, Eisenhower’s contribution to our freedom is priceless.
This looks like something my 5 year old grandaughter would slap together with a bunch of wooden blocks. Lemme guess, a ‘diversity’ designer perhaps?
***Where else can one be employed at a job for 4-8 years and earn a national monument?***
It’s only one month in Indonesia!!!!
Ike, OTOH devoted his whole adult life to the defence of this nation. You do know who he was?
A bit extravagant for my taste. I wonder how Ike would feel about this. .................................... He would probably go along with it so long as the people wanted it. If it was for Mac Arthur, then Mac Arthur would have commented it was too small for Mac Arthur (He referred to himself in the third person.). Most of you probably didn’t grow up during the Eisenhower years, but they were the best years in my lifetime. He was the most under rated President in the past century. In my book, he deserves to be a national hero. His picture is right up there in my den along with Lincoln and Grant.
Did they start saving money to pay for it then too? Ofcourse not. We can't afford it, so they need to keep planning and start saving $$ for another decade.
Wow, that sounds like the lectures I give my teenager.
I loved the little shack he made Montgomery stay in when he "visited" Ike there.
Why would they do all this to honour Ike? Other officers and leaders of other countries didn’t like him because he was inept. Patton was the true hero of WWII, and had he lived I’m sure would of been the next president, there is a man who should have a memorial built in his honour.
Two things, I just assume presidential monuments be limited to their presidential libraries.
Second, Ike has monuments already all over the country called the interstate highway system.
Months after the war was officially over, Eisenhower’s special German DEF camps were still in operation forcing the men into confinement, but denying that they were prisoners. As soon as the war was over, General George Patton simply turned his prisoners loose to fend for themselves and find their way home as best they could. Eisenhower was furious, and issued a specific order to Patton, to turn these men over to the DEF camps. Knowing Patton as we do from history, we know that these orders were largely ignored, and it may well be that Patton’s untimely and curious death may have been a result of what he knew about these wretched Eisenhower DEF camps.
**Why would they do all this to honour Ike?**
British?
I report - you decide.
Both Douglas Mcathur and Patton said Ike was incompetent, I trust those two men much more than I trust a man who’s orders killed over 1million prisoners of war.
“Biritish?”
More likely some ‘bastid’ spawn of a sore loser kraut.
Giant Peanuts, 8 stories tall. Oh and a can of Billy Beer.
And rename the street “Malaise.”
I would agree. Ike’s legacy as president will stand the test of time.
Ike as a soldier. He was always political in the ranks and therefore was a good choice for the political appeasement of allies to head SHEAF. A MacArthur or a Patton as Supreme Allied Commander would not have gone down well with the Brits or French. FDR and Marshall played politics with Ike as their choice and won, sorta.
***Both Douglas Mcathur and Patton said Ike was incompetent, I trust those two men much more than I trust a man who’s orders killed over 1million prisoners of war.***
CANADIAN AUTHOR’S DESPICABLE WORK DEBUNKED HERE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_and_German_POWs
In 1989, Canadian novelist James Bacque alleged in his book Other Losses that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower intentionally caused the deaths by starvation or exposure of around a million German prisoners of war held in Western internment camps briefly after the Second World War.
Remember th days when we made a bronze ststue of a gut ..sat him on a horse in a square .. and THAT was enough????
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