Won't the police stop people who deface the wall?
This is not a sarcastic question.
I hope so, however there will be Anarchists at this protest and in their march, these are the same people that defaced the Capitol building, start fires, kick in store front windows, build barricades from garbage cans, throw rocks and bottles at police and basically create problems for the sake of creating chaos.
Answer will do nothing to stop them.
Well, the Park Police apparently have said they won't tolerate it, and I think it was the Capitol Police who stood back and didn't intervene.
I suspect it was a lack of leadership there that allowed the Capitol steps to be vandalized in full view. At least I HOPE it was a lack of leadership. That can be remedied...If they had official word not to intervene, I find that more troubling.
As it is, this is not just to protect The Wall. I don't think they would do it. (Well, they DO have some dumbasses who WOULD, no question) This is also to show our support. This is particularly important after the treatment of Joshua Sparling.
There are a lot of us who said we are not going to sit idly by 37 years later and let it happen AGAIN. We are not going to let our country be hijacked and our military mistreated AGAIN by a bunch of misguided and/or malignant people who don't have the best interests of our country at heart.
At least this time we will have a chance to speak out and at least do what part we can to ensure our military personnel are thanked, not reviled.
As citizens, we can never return the years of a young man's life lost to him over there. But we CAN express genuine, heartfelt gratitude for that.
We cannot control (or have little control) what Code Pink and others in their cause think or feel. But we CAN make sure that their side is not the ONLY thing heard by our military family around the world, in particular, those in the Middle East and their families.
They will hear us, too. And just perhaps, that little we do, can help one of our men and women in arms to bear the time in a better frame of mind.
They will be proud one day of what they now do. It IS a noble thing. And many of them will find out things about themselves that they never would have otherwise found, what they were capable of.
I predict that in the same way the Greatest Generation came home from WWII and changed our world, this crop of men and women in the Middle East will return from their experiences to help their families, country and businesses navigate the new world ahead in the 21st Century.
That we let them know we ARE grateful is simply a reward in advance for them.
They have already shown us they know how to meet high expectations.