Posted on 10/05/2013 12:32:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When I first saw this story, I assumed that it almost had to be a hoax. After the previous incidents with veterans and the added expenditures involved in closing open spaces to keep veterans from paying their respects to the Honored Dead one would assume that even a novice politician would move to staunch the bleeding. But instead, it seems that the White House is doubling down, as reported at The Weekly Standard.
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.”
As usual, it sounds like our veterans accounted themselves in a professional dignified manner, but were not going to put up with any nonsense.
Segraves described the exchange as pleasant and respectful.
The veterans then moved the barricade and walked down to the wall to pay their respects. But a flood of tourists followed even though the memorial is closed to the general public.
“The consensus among the group of Vietnam veterans was we’re going to go anyway. We’ll go through the barricade,” North Carolina resident Reid Mendenhall said.
U.S. Park Police arrive to the scene, asked everyone to leave and put the barricade back into place.
Conflict over the closure of D.C.’s war memorials has drawn a lot of controversy this week.
Yes… a lot of controversy is putting it mildly. The President can pick all the battles with congressional Republicans that he likes and probably not draw too much political fire from the middle. But if you wanted to conduct a poll of who is least likely to be blamed for anything in this country by the general public, veterans visiting war memorials would have to come in somewhere near the bottom of the list, behind possibly only puppies.
How many more of these stories can the administration sustain before the “no compromise, no negotiations” crowd realizes that they’re going to have to come to the table? Assuming, that is, that the stories actually make it onto the national news.
Dear US Park Service: You are beclowning yourselves doing permanent damage to your service by doing the bidding of temporary politicians. Stop it.
And IRS buildings. F**K THEM!
“that for these honored dead we now block devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that I now highly resolve that these dead shall have died in vain and that I will never let a crisis go to waste!“
From a comment at Legal Insurrection.
Can Congress cut off money to pay for the barricades?
These pilots found out what this chopper was made of; piece by piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRgkur-RpQ
Yep.
And another fabulous post!
Will this backfire on Obama?
Only started wearing a Vietnam vet cap last year; I like to pop into Whole Foods & wait for some aging ponytail of either sex to scream “Babykiller!!!” but all I’ve gotten is the fisheye from a few skinny libs. Muslims don’t seem to like it, either.
LOL! !!! {^)
Muslims tick me off a lot more than the ponytailers. After all, a fair decent number of them are conservatives in camo, at least in my California coastal experience. But yeah, the sanctimonious skinny vegans (who are also usually slightly deranged from bad nutrition) bring out the pit bull in me. I hold them in exteme contempt because they are new-age stone agers.
Muslims, on the other hand -- with women in those head scarves and especially women in full hijab -- there's no camo there, just in-your-face anti-freedomism. At least hippies are the sons and daughters of American parents. Muslims are anti-Christian invaders with the same mindset they've had for 14 centuries. They cannot create prosperity in their own societies for a reason.
If you enjoy Vietnam War stories, some of mine can be found at:
http://www.projectdelta.net/index.html
Thank you! :^)
Is there any way to recall a sitting president???? Serious!
"Head Nero in Charge!"
Stunning post. Thank you.
Ain't it the truth? Close all welfare offices, stop the food stamps, barrycade all the MSM buildings, the PBS, all government schools and all universities that receive government funding -- that would be most universities except Hillsdale and Liberty.
Bump for later read. Enjoyed your earlier post. I understand your sentiments and, despite having been born a little late for VN, I have many friends and co-workers that served in the war.
I know a lot more now than I knew when I went through the 1970s public school brainwashing procedure back when I was young. a LOT more!
And the television media is completely silent about this.
I agree. As a USMC infantry officer I experienced, and dished out, a lot of “trauma” in Vietnam. Thanks to excellent training and support, I think I handled OK. But, nothing prepared me for what I experienced at the hands of many of my fellow Americans once I returned home.
And you expected what?
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