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Vietnam Memorial Wall Defaced This Weekend (September 7-9, 2007)
Eyewitnesses to the damage, Concretebob, Mr. and Mrs. Trooprally ^ | September 9, 2007

Posted on 09/09/2007 6:55:45 PM PDT by tgslTakoma

Mrs. Trooprally called me this evening to tell me that she and her husband, as well as Concretebob, saw damage along almost the entire length of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. They found this damage this morning, when they walked through the area before participating in the September 11th Freedom Walk.

Concretebob was told by a National Park Service employee that the damage was done on Friday night. There was no police report taken or written about the vandalism, apparently. And the damage was still very much there today.

Here are a few of the photos that Mrs. Trooprally took this morning...

This first one is not so noticeable, but as they walked into the center, it got worse.

It seems like a oil that has and acid in it; As you go up the Wall some the names can not be read!!!


It looks like the person who did this walked along The Wall with some type of container, perhaps hidden at their side so that they could squirt the oily substance without being caught in the act.

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The names along the lower part of The Wall appear to have taken the brunt of the damage.

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Because of the reflective nature of The Wall, Mrs. Trooprally had a tough time capturing the extent of the damage. Mr. Trooprally said that the oily substance has discolored the shiny stone, but that it has been absorbed into the more porous area where the names are etched into The Wall.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchist; answer; commies; gatheringofeagles; johnkerry; memorialdesecration; ratcrime; sds; sept15org; thewall
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To: tgslTakoma

Use some Oxi-Clean. That should take it out.

* - (The writing above is the opinion of the author and have not been approved by the makers of Oxi-Clean.)


161 posted on 09/09/2007 9:14:50 PM PDT by Chewbacca (Vote Ron Paul for President in 2008!!!!!! The best man for the job!)
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To: tgslTakoma

DAMN them!!!

I sure hope that it can be cleaned. =\


162 posted on 09/09/2007 9:15:57 PM PDT by luvie (Thompson)
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To: LUV W

Me too! If they have to replace it, then all of us have to foot the bill because of some evil scumbags.


163 posted on 09/09/2007 9:17:27 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: tgslTakoma
This makes me furious!

Are there surveilance cameras at the memorials? If not, it is time to get them installed!

164 posted on 09/09/2007 9:20:02 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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To: Shadow44

I wish there were something we could do this coming weekend when so many FReepers will be gathered.

It is just sick!


165 posted on 09/09/2007 9:20:14 PM PDT by luvie (Thompson)
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To: tgslTakoma; #1CTYankee; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2LT Radix jr; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

PING!


166 posted on 09/09/2007 9:21:45 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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There will be a price to be paid, The Black Bloc has made good their promise to damage the Vietnam Wall, there is no need for a CSI, five year Blue Ribbon panel,.. to BS this to death.
I suggest a reward fund be started to pay cash for the names of those who defaced the Vietnam Wall. Cold hard cash will buy cold hearted bastards.

This is federal property, might all Vietnam Vets & fellow Americans demand the FBI enter into the investigation and arrest those responsible?.


167 posted on 09/09/2007 9:23:20 PM PDT by EAGLE RECRUITOR (CW-3 US Army Retired, National Eagle Recruitor)
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To: ReignOfError
Yeah, and I also "know" that the guy was named Jim-Bob.

Sheesh!

The length of the Wall is 493' 6". It would take a pretty stupid person to "accidentally" squirt (or dribble, or spray, or pour, or dip one's hand into a bucket of some unknown oily substance and flick handsfull of) stuff onto the Wall for 493' 6".

168 posted on 09/09/2007 9:24:12 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: HiJinx

thanks, Jinxie! I hit the list.


169 posted on 09/09/2007 9:24:17 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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To: MountainFlower

There has to be a security tape somewhere!!! They knew the Eagles were coming to prevent this in a few days so they struck early!


170 posted on 09/09/2007 9:25:00 PM PDT by Jewels1091
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To: ReignOfError

Intent and Motive have been established in the dozens of cases where these groups have vandalized other war memorials across the country.

I believe they wanted to light it on fire, my belief is it didn’t light according to plan.


171 posted on 09/09/2007 9:25:00 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the link.
I will check it out on some plasters I’m involved with.

Flogging and skinning is more my style.


172 posted on 09/09/2007 9:25:53 PM PDT by shadowcat
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To: Jewels1091

They didn’t have any in Philadelphia before Vandals defaced that one. I hope DC wasn’t as naive.


173 posted on 09/09/2007 9:26:32 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Smokin' Joe

How do you feel about drawing and quartering?


174 posted on 09/09/2007 9:27:54 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
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To: MountainFlower

Thanks for the Ping

Does anyone know what was used and can it be fixed?


175 posted on 09/09/2007 9:27:59 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: tgslTakoma

these people, and I use the term loosely, need to be stripped of their citizenship and tossed out to sea.


176 posted on 09/09/2007 9:28:04 PM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END Welfare)
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To: ReignOfError
A gas-powered edger leaking oil, or fuel, could fit the pattern of the spots observed, as far as I can tell from the photos.

Do you really want to blame some Mexican gardener for this in front of this crowd?

177 posted on 09/09/2007 9:28:29 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: tgslTakoma

From the pattern on the Wall it looks to me that someone
urinated - but can’t figure the oil?

Whoever did it - a POX on you!


178 posted on 09/09/2007 9:29:22 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: pillut48

I think locking them into a room that plays nothing but military music would be equally fitting. :D


179 posted on 09/09/2007 9:29:57 PM PDT by luvie (Thompson)
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To: MountainFlower

Mentally ill SOB’s.


180 posted on 09/09/2007 9:30:47 PM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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