Posted on 10/05/2013 11:27:18 AM PDT by servo1969
Via William Jacobson, NBC's affiliate in Washington, D.C. reports that police ordered tourists and Vietnam war veterans who were visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to leave the memorial at one point on Friday.
After one group of veterans went around the barricade, "the park ranger told them the wall was closed," NBC's Mark Seagraves reported. "Later another group of vets showed up and moved the barricades. At that point, the memorial filled with vets and tourists. That's when police came and moved everyone out."
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is a black granite outdoor wall on which the names of the 58,272 service members who died or were unaccounted for during the Vietnam war are inscribed.
It takes more manpower and costs the government more money to close down an outdoor wall than to let people walk past it and pay their respects.
The Obama administration has been very selective in devoting resources to shutting down memorials.
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Why isn’t there video of this all over the internet showing fascist cops bullying wwII vets?
Those officers don’t look happy to be there.
You don’t get squat, fella. And, last I saw, I wasn’t in your way, Keyboard Kommando.
A LONG FORGOTTEN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
The four passenger helicopter already overloaded with eight just barely lifting off its roof top heli-pad. Attached to its steel tube runner type landing gear below the fuselage were about a dozen more desperate people clinging to the gear . As the craft struggles to get airborne. it lurches skyward as one of those clinging to the steel tubes used as landing gear lets go. Falling to a death some 35 feet down to the refugee crowded lamding pad atop the Saigon American Embassy roof..
They were fleeing South Viet Nam through its closed US embassy because American support was withdrawn and denied .Leaving its army running out of ammo and conviction. Sold out by an American congress controled ironically by Democrats that.decided to shed its support for a democratic form of government to what became a US ward for a socialist/communist replacement . It was a harbinger of what that political party will bring to the US 50 years later.
Because of Obamacare most recalling of defunding\ governemnt shutdowns simply goes back to Gingrich’s time when he was Speaker.
This earlier defunding/ government shutdown had profound implications where hundreds of thousands died because of it. Like the constitutional constrains on central government. That abandonment of Viet Nam is hardly if ever mentioned or discussed in classrooms despite American humiliation could be demonstrated in that film clip described in this articles lead paragraph..
Because it was created by the Democrat party responding to the socialist/communist radicals that had taken over the “liberal arts eduicational industry” and were slowly taking that party over as well..
Not only did we lose a war because of it. But those same university socialist educators which encouraged this defunding , and dis-honoring the of the 58,000 deaths of our military. Also encouraged their charges to use humiliation such as calling retuning servicemen “baby killers” (only later to kill their own) and spitting in their faces.
Their educational products are now on their own, borrowing a military term, R&R . Running and Ruining destroying this country . For this time the same group are now in control of that political party.
Changing it so much that in their 2012 convention booed any reference to “The Creator” ,God.. Demonstrating that any connection to the political party of JFK is gone. They are Democrat in name only and really Demo-Coms.. A term their present political opposition would choke on repeating . For the Republicans are.unable even to use the milder epithet “socialist”. The DCs are now demanding funding for a cherished socialist concept replete with 2000 pages of controls for the health collective.
Controls which includes newly created bureaucracies for enforcement some under the direct control of the President who is now by executive order dening access to the open air meager tribute to those who served during that time. Today Professor William Ayers is proud of his protege.
Inventor Barry Soetoro, aka “B. Hussein Obama,” has decreed that his BARRYCADES (Tm) shall be used in outdoor Park, outdoor Monument, and outdoor Mall settings.
However, details have been secretly emerging of past and future plans for Barrycade “investments.”
Construction of larger Barrycades to be used on the US Mexican Border had to be canceled when the income from the Fast and Furious uncontrolled gun control “investment” went the way of all other Obamanation investments.
Potential construction of Barrycades to be placed on Obama’s Red Line in Syria is currently being jointly studied by the US Military, and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Vladamir Putin.
Ambassador Dennis Rodman, no relation to Mrs. Bill Clinton, is rumored to be trying to put together a syndicate of his best friends to provide funding for the construction of these Red Line Barrycades.
North Korea spokesmen would not confirm or deny this rumor.
hunh!!! LOL!!
Perfect...
Brilliant!
My thoughts exactly.
They LEFT??/ WHERE id the CHINESE GUY that stood in front of TANKS in Tianneman SQUARE???
Stop it...we are WINNING in the public’s eye......do you think the Dems will vote for this??? NO....even the IRS employees will have open eyes. THINK!!
You really are a SORE WINNER.
Cut the Dingle Barry Cades in half. End of problem. The Berlin Wall was taken down with less.
OMG!!! OMG!!! DOGS to keep out CITIZENS that SERVED our country??????? This CANNOT be HAPPENING!!!!
No, the 58,195 ghosts of the fallen souls are always there.
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For those unfamiliar with the Vietnam War Memorial, here's a photo looking towards the central corner. The two walls continue tapering downwards as though the ground had fallen away to uncover the collective tombstone.
It's a wide open Memorial but for the single strand of chain that guides visitors from one end to the other.
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. Once again the "progressive left" spits on the fallen, their families and friends, as well as all serving warriors, past and present. A reckoning will come.
Oh man....don’t give them any ideas!!
Anyone going to the Memorials should print a Picture of Adolph Hitler and have it with them. When they come across one of the Rangers or Cops ask them if the would sign the picture for them.
You’ve got a great point!! WHY did they leave??? SIT IN VETS!! They will NOT harm you!
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