Wow: WWII Vets "Storm" Closed War Memorial in DC

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Visiting veterans storm closed WWII memorial
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Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post - Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight members visit the World War II Memorial after the barricades were opened on Monday. (I believe the wording should be "kicked open" by the Vets. :+) )


The veterans piled off the chartered buses in front of the World War II Memorial, some in wheelchairs, some using canes, all determined to pay homage to each other and their fallen comrades from more than half a century ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...c2a376-2ab4-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html
 
It is beginning to seem as if there was more petulance from the White House staff directed at this group of veterans and if this indeed the case the President should be ashamed of his staff and see that those responsible for this action are help accountable. I suppose "accountability" will translate into issuing a statement then taking the 5th, followed by paid leave then an early retirement with full benefits. And although the office ofNational Parks service website is closed due to the shutdown, here is a link that states this memorial is open 24/7.
http://wwiimemorial.com/

The memorial is operated by the National Park Service and is open to visitors 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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If the Administration can shake loose $320 Million in these tough times for Detroit, why in the world can they not let these heros visit their own Memorial for goodness sake? Also, I am wondering where did the money come from to pay the people to set up the barricades?
In a way this reminds me a bit of the 2k Motorcycle group being denied a permit, but the Million Muslim March was granted a permit.

The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office to have World War II veterans visit the World War II memorial in Washington, the Mississippi Republican told The Daily Caller Tuesday.
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“We got the heads up that they will be barricaded and specifically asked for an exception for these heroes,” Palazzo told TheDC. “We were denied and told, ‘It’s a government shutdown, what do you expect?’ when we contacted the liaison for the White House.”

Palazzo’s office was in touch with the heads of the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior and the Capitol Police. He says all these officials rejected his request to allow the veterans, many of whom are octogenarians and some of whom are in poor health, to attend.
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/01/obama-admin-knew-about-wwii-veterans-request-and-rejected-it/
 
As far as I am concerned, these guys paid for their right to see this monument anytime they want to. It is a wide open space anyway. Stupid on the part of the Park Sevice.
 
I'm gonna have to disagree here. I say they should have been kept out. The government is fucking closed!! Everytime we make these exceptions, we make it easier for the leadership to play these games.

I say shut down the WHOLE government; that includes abandoning the borders, no protective details for ANYONE, airports closed, etc. Let's make this as painful as possible.
 
One article I read about this quoted an on-duty police office who said he wasn't go to stop them from entering. He was a vet himself and felt they DESERVED to be there. As long as nothing got broken he didn't care.
 
I wish I bookmarked the article which had a conversation between a Congressman and a Park officer going back and forth. The press was right there recording the audio and perhaps the video. The Congressman was playing for the press and doing a bit of dressing down of the Park officer which I thought was poor fucking form on his part. The Park officer responded with the "I'm just doing what I was told"'; which I was fine with. What burned my ass was the Congressman playing for the cameras. You should be in you office doing your job and/or talking to someone in a management position rather than dressing down the Park officer for doing what she (the officer) was told to. Stop throwing your weight around when it suits you and get your happy ass back into the hall of the House.
 
I wanted to share this. I think he sums it up very well.
http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/10/03/an-open-letter-to-president-obama/

Far from being a “new kind of politician” (as you were advertised), you are the most political politician this country has ever seen. You are political to your core, in your essence, at an atomic level, and so you are unable to offer any direction or clarity when the nation needs it most. Sometimes, Mr. President, the affairs of this nation require a man, not a politician, and it is during those times that you are especially useless. You don’t have any interest in fixing our present crisis because you’re too busy finding ways to keep a busload of 90 year old war veterans from looking at a memorial.
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Closing down parks, monuments and memorials just to score political points is hardly your most insidious deed, but it’s certainly one of your pettiest. That’s why it stands, ironically, as a monument of its own. If we ever build a statue of you, Mr. President, you won’t be triumphantly holding a flaming torch like Lady Liberty, or standing authoritatively with a look of determination, like the MLK memorial. No, it will be a statue of you pulling the wings off of a fly, or spitting in someone’s orange juice. It will show you in your essence, as monuments are meant to do. It will show you as a petulant, skulking, juvenile bully. It will you show you as you are.

And we’ll make sure it’s always open, especially during a government shut down.
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Well, it looks like the POOPs (Pissed Off Old Paratroopers) and other miscellaneous battle hardened men have really pissed off TPTB now. The NPS wired the barricades shut.

But the barriers are still at the memorial, and they've been reinforced. This morning, I walked by the memorial and noticed that wires had been used to tie the fences together:
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Aaaaaaaand STAY OUT!!!!!!
 
The Nevada Honor Flight entered the WWII Monument today. Not much about it on the news that I can find other than Twitterverse. Also, being it was the Nevada Honor Flight where in the hell was Harry Reid?

http://www.mynews4.com/news/story/N...to-their-memorial/Rj2Raee17E6CPE8mxmqdgA.cspx

- World War II veterans on Nevada Honor Flight were not stopped by a barricade in front of their memorial.

After hearing word that temporary barricades were placed around the memorial and may have been wired shut, one vet on the bus en route to memorial said of the barricade, "We're going to tear that damn thing down!" That was not necessary as Senator Dean Heller, along with Representatives Mark Amodei, Steven Horsford and Joe Heck were on hand making sure Park Rangers did not try to stop the veterans.
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Some great pics on here.
http://twitchy.com/2013/10/05/entir...nor-flight-vets-headed-to-wwii-memorial-pics/
 
medicchick said:
Yeah but they were denied access to the Lincoln and Iwo Jima monuments.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20131005...rans-denied-access-Lincoln-Iwo-Jima-monuments
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The Syracuse Honor Flight did get into the Iwo Jima Monument. It is weird saying "get into" as it is an open air Monument. I like the new term "Barry-cades". I hope POTUS realizes this will be his legacy.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/iwo-jima-memorial-closed-barricades-erected_759277.html

http://twitchy.com/2013/10/05/honor-flight-vets-break-through-barry-cade-at-iwo-jima-memorial-pics/

And this guy got pushed out of the Jefferson Memorial
http://twitchy.com/2013/10/05/its-q...shes-john-ondrasik-out-of-jefferson-memorial/
 

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