Posted on 05/31/2016 6:23:22 AM PDT by C19fan
Carefree playing children is one thing. This admitted “staged stunt” with adults trampling flowers and markers is something else.
Perhaps the joggers should be given the honor of fighting the next World War without our help. It’s time to pull up the drawbridge. Europe is dead.
” I disagreed - politely at first, then more stringently as she pressed the issue - saying that the sailors who served (and also died) aboard, did so precisely so WBill Jr. could do what he was doing...”
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They served so he could play with a matchbox car on a naval ship? I really can’t understand your thinking on this.
When I’m dead, I want my headstone to be the 18th hole on a disc golf course.
Again - no ceremonies were going on. No Tours. If there was something going on - a service, or something - of course we would have been respectfully quiet. We were the only people in the area forward of the superstructure (likely the only ones on board). And, it's not an active naval ship, it's a museum. Not sure if it's still on the rolls, or not...I don't think so.
Certainly no disrespect was intended. And we were certainly more respectful than the "Exit Through The Gift Shop" tourist trap the busybody lady came out of - that used the ship's good name to sell everything from pencils to fake rubber dog poop.
FWIW, I went back and read the article. No idea what the "artist" in question was thinking.... this was out of bounds. I used to work in the town cemeteries, so I'm pretty inured to them and the goings on in them. However, what was discussed in the article was completely uncalled for - if it had happened in the cemeteries that I worked in, I'd have put an end to it.
3000+ mostly grownups stomping around haphazardly? And in the pictures you can see the damage to the plants, excess trash, etc that they left? Setting questions of respect aside, this stunt screwed up lots of work by the grounds crew, and will take lots more to set right again. This wasn't a kid or two playing quietly - which actually would have been a more powerful message, I think.
One can always use the rhetorical device of saying “Servicemen died to protect my right to do X.” It is not equally true for all values of “X”, especially trivial behaviors. It’s sort of like saying “Soldiers died to protect my right to eat a peanut butter sandwich whenever I please.” Really?
Whatever. Go troll someone else.
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