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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: LUV W

Kate Smith rocks!! Sounds fair to me! :-)


181 posted on 09/09/2007 9:31:13 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: tgslTakoma
http://www.andovertownsman.com/local/local_story_248201034.html

Here's another recent incident at the wall.

182 posted on 09/09/2007 9:31:26 PM PDT by Styria
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To: pillut48

Very L O U D military music!!!

Lots of Sousa Marches! :D


183 posted on 09/09/2007 9:32:34 PM PDT by luvie (Thompson)
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To: usmcobra
Intent and Motive have been established in the dozens of cases where these groups have vandalized other war memorials across the country.

Intent and motive in those cases. Not in this one, when so few facts are known. In how many of those cases were memorials vandalized at ankle height in the middle of the night while no one was watching? Seems like a weird way to make a statement.

184 posted on 09/09/2007 9:33:35 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
"Desecrated" requires intent and motive.

No. Even if not intentional, the site was desecrated.

185 posted on 09/09/2007 9:33:58 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: tgslTakoma

They better put cameras on the wall - that should keep it from happening again.


186 posted on 09/09/2007 9:34:34 PM PDT by CyberAnt (America: THE GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth!)
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To: ReignOfError
In how many of those cases were memorials vandalized at ankle height...

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187 posted on 09/09/2007 9:37:39 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: tgslTakoma

The Left, who espouses love for all things, yet acts with the most vile of hatred, is the embodiment of EVIL. For it is THEY who live to create in real life, that which they claim to fear.

The persons who did this should have to SERVE on hands and knees those men and women who currently serve this nation, as those men did who died, and whose names they defiled. But I am CERTAIN that our men and women in Uniform would not let such filth clean the bottom of their boots let alone serve them.

Let God sort them out in the end as they deserve.


188 posted on 09/09/2007 9:38:33 PM PDT by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha (Smoke clears and Fred Thompson is President))
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To: Petronski
Vinegar will dissolve marble, really. Its cheap and does a lot of damage to the rock like what is shown. Vinegar will act like a real low molar acid to marble and is why homeowners with marble counter tops have to be careful with what one cleans the marble. Marble is laden with calcium and the vinegar puts the calcium in dissolution. One doesn’t need a strong acid or base to deface marble.
189 posted on 09/09/2007 9:40:14 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

It’s granite.


190 posted on 09/09/2007 9:41:20 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: vetvetdoug

I did NOT know that.

REASON #1 to stick with ceramic tile or **gasp** plastics.


191 posted on 09/09/2007 9:42:18 PM PDT by Petronski (Cleveland Indians: Pennant -14)
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To: tgslTakoma
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".

Grounds crews, and presumably electricians to maintain the lights, run the full length of the wall on a regular basis. As I mentioned in another post, the grass at the top of the wall in the first picture looks freshly-edged. If that granite is anything like my granite counters, they periodically reapply sealant to protect the stone from the elements.

192 posted on 09/09/2007 9:42:45 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: pillut48
I think it would be appropriate, especially for traitors, child molestors, and the like.

It is a pretty fast way to go compared to being shredded with a cat (although members of some tribes were reputed to be able to make it last for days), but there would be no second offenders.

193 posted on 09/09/2007 9:44:33 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: tgslTakoma

This is just infuriating!!! I sure hope they can fix it!!


194 posted on 09/09/2007 9:44:52 PM PDT by Ros42
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To: glock rocks
No. Even if not intentional, the site was desecrated.

If you take intent out of the equation, every memorial is desecrated every single day. Wind and rain and smog and bird doo don't discriminate.

195 posted on 09/09/2007 9:45:27 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
In how many of those cases were memorials vandalized at ankle height in the middle of the night while no one was watching? Seems like a weird way to make a statement.

Not really, in most of the cases the perps did their most damage down low and out of sight.

Laying low would be the way to go especially as well lit as the wall is at night.

Those that actually were there did not report the strong oder of Gasoline or castor oil(two stroke oil) both of which are used in weed eaters, so I reject your theory as unsubstantiated, also Gasoline would have evaporated but still smelled. My wife can smell gas on me from hours before hand.

196 posted on 09/09/2007 9:46:49 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: ReignOfError
If you take intent out of the equation, every memorial is desecrated every single day. Wind and rain and smog and bird doo don't discriminate.

I agree. And in this case, it doesn't appear to be bird doo, smog or rain, does it?

197 posted on 09/09/2007 9:47:54 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: tgslTakoma

I stand corrected. Mostly ankle height, in two cases briefly reaching as high as the knee.


198 posted on 09/09/2007 9:47:56 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: glock rocks
If you take intent out of the equation, every memorial is desecrated every single day. Wind and rain and smog and bird doo don't discriminate.

I agree. And in this case, it doesn't appear to be bird doo, smog or rain, does it?

Doesn't appear to be. Your point?

199 posted on 09/09/2007 9:49:43 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: tgslTakoma
Obviously the work of an angry white religious conservative.

NOT!!!!

200 posted on 09/09/2007 9:52:17 PM PDT by MistrX
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