Posted on 06/09/2009 12:54:57 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Prominent Vietnam veterans and their families are appalled by an advertisement for a major local mall that shows a woman in front of a wall that strongly resembles the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, with the names of the center’s stores appearing instead of the names of the war dead.
Tysons Corner Center reacted quickly to condemnation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and ordered the immediate removal of 440 of the ads from the Metrorail cars where they have been posted, mall spokeswoman Allison Fischer said Tuesday afternoon.
The Tysons ad features a black granite wall engraved with a list of shops over the slogan, “It’s time to defrost.” The store names are presented in virtually the same font on a highly reflective surface like the Vietnam Memorial. There is an image in the background of a what could be a rose, a flower commonly left at the Wall.
“There’s no question my generation will see this as The Wall,” said Marshall Carter, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and a veteran of two tours in Vietnam. “There’s no getting around it. It jumps right off the page.”
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That’s the best idea they could come up with?
Such ads are becoming more common. Doesn’t the management of these companies review the ads before giving Marketing the go-ahead? Somewhere in Tysons Corner, someone must have given a thumbs-up to the contrated advertising company telling them to go ahead. And when that person is identified, he/she should be fired without delay. and his/her boss as well.
Someone needs to get a grip. I think this is probably a waste of energy.
How could someone POSSIBLY be SO IGNORANT of our HISOTRY and monuments commemorating the ultimate sacrifice or our GREATEST AMERICANS???
Think about this, though, it's not like just one person created this ad. It would've had to have been created, approved, and reviewed by the ad agency, and then reviewed and approved by the marketing dept. of Tysons.
And no one picked up on that?
This isn't a case of it being similar. It's not evocative. It's vaguely identical.
Clueless liberal ad agency spreadin’ their hate disguised as an ad campaign. This one is blatant.
“Shoes for Industry.Shoes for the dead.
What chance does a returning deceased veteran have
for that new mule he’s been dreaming about.”
There are at least a few people in an ad agency and a property management firm somewhere who don’t have a clue.
Sorta keeping in the contemporary notion of Memorial Day being nothing more than a day off to ring in the spring with a big shopping day and backyard BBQ’s.
A common complaint of our aging ( and disappearing ) WWII veterans ).
That’s it?
That’s the “mockery”?
Sure, it looks somewhat like The Vietnam Memorial.
So, are we supposed to forever avoid the use of a black wall with words on it?
Sorry.
I don’t see a deliberate attempt to copy nor mock The Vietnam Memorial.
We have better (real) battles to fight.
Ah, what does “True Religion” sell?
> Sorry.
> I don’t see a deliberate attempt to copy nor mock The Vietnam Memorial.
Sorry... I can see it: it’s as obvious as dog’s bollix. And I’m a foreigner. If a foreigner can see it, surely every Yank in America can see it.
Jeans
You're not from around here, are you?
It’s Obama Time.
very poor taste, especially in the eyes of Vets. just unnecessary.
Yes, I am.
For about eight years now.
My skin’s just not so thin.
I didn’t realize Hussein Obimbo had taken over the Advertising Industry also.
That little moslem would do something exactly like this.
Oh.
You wouldn't understand, then.
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