I actually still had this pic on my cell phone from my last visit to the Lincoln Memorial on 10/26/2008.
Posted on 08/09/2010 6:48:13 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
A group of high school students attending a conservative leadership conference in Washington, D.C. said they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a June 25 visit to the Lincoln Memorial.
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I think I’ve met that guy . . . only he was a park ranger. I was in D.C. chaperoning a youth trip and we visited the Lincoln Memorial one night in the rain. There was hardly anybody there. We were standing around the (then closed for the night) concession stand over between the Lincoln Memoria and the Korean Memorial. The kids started singing something (no, it wasn’t the national anthem) and some park ranger came over and read them the riot act. I don’t really think the kids were being disrespectful and they surely weren’t hurting anybody but this guy treated it like it was crime of the damn century. They sure take singing seriously in Washington, D.C.
I think I’ve met that guy . . . only he was a park ranger. I was in D.C. chaperoning a youth trip and we visited the Lincoln Memorial one night in the rain. There was hardly anybody there. We were standing around the (then closed for the night) concession stand over between the Lincoln Memoria and the Korean Memorial. The kids started singing something (no, it wasn’t the national anthem) and some park ranger came over and read them the riot act. I don’t really think the kids were being disrespectful and they surely weren’t hurting anybody but this guy treated it like it was crime of the damn century. They sure take singing seriously in Washington, D.C.
*“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”*
Flashback of Slim Pickens riding the Enola straight cowboy style!
I actually still had this pic on my cell phone from my last visit to the Lincoln Memorial on 10/26/2008.
Agreed...
Whadda ya in for kid? Singing the National Anthem at the Lincoln Memorial.
Oh...
I really want my County back.
” threatened that if he didn’t stop throwing pebbles that “he could have seven helicopters there in five minutes”
Dang! 7 Helicopters! I would have liked to have seen that.
I know that sitting anywhere except on a park bench is illegal. You also can’t even stop and stand and look at the monuments or you’ll be charged with loitering. The guy at the vending area said I could stand and look if I bought something from him.
Wait till they put a burqua on Abe.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Granting it was the LINCOLN memorial, as soon as the National Anthem was challenged they should have promptly switched to singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Abe would have appreciated the switch.
“A Tea Party visit could be interesting.”
I think the “mother” of interesting (at the Lincoln Memorial) will be 8/28. We all have to pray, though, that Glenn will be safe.
Rembrandt really was an amazing painter.
Pinatas parties and Muslim prayer meeting are authorized at the memorial, if kept low key. However American patriot songs and American flag T-shirts are not allow...These rules have been in effect for years and were implemented so as not to offend foreigners.
I am deeply concerned that 8/28 will be a Harper’s Ferry or Lexington Green. The Black Panthers are planning to be there, and they will be trying to goad the patriots into violence. Will they get it? We’ll see.
Let’s hope that he’s in good voice that day.
They would have been find if they had been singing the Communist Internationale...
Oh hardihar. Thanks for the laugh.
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