Government Shutdown Spreds to Beaches of Normandy

New York Post ^ | October 2, 2013 | AP

[yldstrk]

PARIS — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government’s partial shutdown.

The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.

[yldstrk]

disgusting

[MN.Gruber06]

I’ve been to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. It is the cemetery that this article is referring to. It, like many other monuments that have been deliberately closed, is a FREE, OPEN AIR memorial.

[Doogle]

...typical foreign relations from a 12 yr old

[MWS]

They are trying to make this as painful as possible so that the people know how much we need them.

If anything, this whole shutdown makes the greatest case that could be made against Obamacare. When the next shutdown comes along, government having this type of power over healthcare is just going to make it THAT much more painful.

[Paine in the Neck]

[KarlInOhio]

Did they reuse the original (now rusty) barricades or did they have to put up some 21st century barrycades?

[yldstrk]

yes they are making a point and it is backfiring because people are seeing what a cold calculating expletive the executive is

[Texas Eagle]

They Barackaded the beaches of Normandy???

[Gabrial]

FedGov: “You must pay to visit your dead. Your dead belong to us now.”

[freedombird]

That is total, unmitigated BS!! Those, sacred places have been paid for a million times over by the first drop blood spilled on those lands.....The Federal Government DOES NOT OWN a damn speck of that dirt, or any other Park, Forest, memorial, ETC........WE THE PEOPLE own this country.....it’s about damn time we start taking it back!!!

[The Sons of Liberty]

It looks like we may be forced to ask The Greatest Generation to save us one more time ...

[mrsmel]

Hussein petty spiteful pos

[yldstrk]

apparantly

I hope the French tell him where to get off just like Wisconsin did when Department of Natural Resources refused to close the Wisconsin parks

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Words fail. At least words that can be openly spoken here.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

It looks to me that the government of FRANCE and its people are showing more reverence and respect to our honored dead than does their own government.
Wait, it is NOT the GI’s government. Their government has passed into history. Personally, I miss it.

[surrey]

We’re taking a river cruise to Normandy in April. This cruise is costing a pretty penny so I’m sure that anyone on any of the cruises taking place right now must be fuming.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Where in Mexico is the US cemetery ?

[yldstrk]

Hopefully they will take matters into their own hands and see the place anyway

[MN.Gruber06]

"It looks to me that the government of FRANCE and its people are showing more reverence and respect to our honored dead than does their own government."

Don't be mistaken. The Cotentin Peninsula is excellent and the majority of the French that live there are extremely friendly to Americans. I've had nothing but excellent experiences with French natives everywhere from Cherbourg all the way to Caen. Paris, on the other hand, might as well be on another planet.

[NonValueAdded]

If I had a loved one buried there, they'd have to shoot me to keep me out.

American Legion? VFW? Where are you??? Let's hear the outrage!!!