Vietnam Memorial Wall Defaced This Weekend (September 7-9, 2007)

Eyewitnesses to the damage, Concretebob, Mr. and Mrs. Trooprally ^ | September 9, 2007

[pillut48]

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

[Styria]

http://www.andovertownsman.com/local/local_story_248201034.html

Here's another recent incident at the wall.

[luvie]

Very L O U D military music!!!

Lots of Sousa Marches! :D

[ReignOfError]

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.

[glock rocks]

"Desecrated" requires intent and motive.

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

[CyberAnt]

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

[tgslTakoma]

In how many of those cases were memorials vandalized at ankle height...

[Danae]

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.

[vetvetdoug]

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.

[glock rocks]

It’s granite.

[Petronski]

I did NOT know that.

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

[ReignOfError]

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.

[Smokin' Joe]

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.

[Ros42]

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

[ReignOfError]

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.

[usmcobra]

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.

[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?

[ReignOfError]

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

[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?

Doesn't appear to be. Your point?

[MistrX]

Obviously the work of an angry white religious conservative.

NOT!!!!