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In Singapore they regularly beat their children. There is corporal punishment for chewing gum, and the death penalty for smoking weed. Needless to say, Singapore is #1 in economic development and the highest GDP in the world. I would say climbing on a Vietnam Vet sculpture is a bit worse than chewing gum or smoking weed... if you catch my drift.
The Vet in the photo may not agree with you, or your uncle.
I guess not giving a eff, and thinking everything is BS is why kids and young adults dont know how to act, and even get themselves killed over the stupidest crap imaginable. Just in general, no one gives a eff about anything.
Good point!
Lorde (Tennis Court) - Its a new art form showing people how little we care - yeah!
Maybe he doesn't. Since my uncle was a Purple Heart recepient and a vet who suffered for many years because of the inaction of the US Gov't and the apathy/hatred of US citizens you'll have to forgive my attitude towards people crying about a statue.
I give a **** about important things like living, breathing military veterans not statues.
I am a 'Nam Vet with some problems with PTSD and diabetes created by Agent Orange exposure along with the occasional nightmare. So what? It is what it is.
I am heartened that these kids have no idea of the horror show that was 'Nam. Having children play on this Monument to Death turns it into a Monument to the Lives these unfortunates never had. Let the kids play. Their turn on the rack is likely to come all too soon.
I still blame the kids. Look at the memorial, it is not a statue of a soldier standing there. Any kid would realize what they are looking at.
I think the posters whose rep points are so much lower than their posts total are the ones that need a reality check. They are the ones that think differently than the norm.
By the way I told a little kid about their behavior the other day. The father did not say a word to me. I think he realized if he did he would have gotten more than words.
LMAO Oh PLEASE.
Assigning such importance to a made up rep system on a message board speaks volumes about your feelings on a statue. Thinking differently from the norm is a GOOD THING.
Good point. If you really want to respect and honor these veterans take care of them, and give those who have been screwed up in that war the proper care they need! It is your policies (when I say "your" I mean the government not you) that put them in harms way in the first damn place! Now I assure you as a parent, I wouldn't let my kid climb all over a memorial, but this certainly isn't newsworthy, and something to make a huge fuss about!
Exactly. The government does this to these people and then gives 'em a friggin' statue. For what? Really makes me angry. And it makes me angrier when people care more about a flag or a statue than the people who put their lives on the line.
Anyone who does understand the symbolism of the statues and memorials, ought to have a dog urinate on their precious family photos.. and see how it makes them feel. maybe they will understand symbolism of things that we hold dear.
My one cousin was in Vietnam, My Father is a Korean War veteran, His three brothers served in the military. My grandfather and four of my Fathers cousins were in WWII. I think that qualifies enough, don't you think? Memorials are symbols, and symbols aren't important to me. What I would find would be a better gesture is for the Government to give lifetime medical care, residency, and a pension to all veterans of American Wars. Pretty sure they would appreciate that more than some gaudy assed statue.
You have no memories of Vietnam. It was over before you were born. You're coming from a generation that doesn't remember what Vietnam did to this country. It tore us apart. It killed our sons and brothers and friends. Getting the Wall built was a struggle that took years. The Wall was controversial. The statues were controversial. People who remember Vietnam approach the Wall steeling themselves for the grief and flood of raw emotions that comes from seeing all those names. Thousands and thousands of names. Brothers. Sons. Husbands. Fathers. Childhood buddies. Veterans fall to their knees crying over a friend dead 45 years. Parents leave photos of sons in Little League uniforms.
The statue is in a place people go to after seeing thousand and thousands of names of the dead. It depicts how many of those who are on the Wall spent their last moments. Held in the arms of a nurse waiting for the 'whop-whop-whop' of an evac chopper coming in to pick up a 19-year-old wounded in a war he didn't ask for. Calling it a "gaudy assed statue" is naive (at best) on your part.
Vietnam is still a raw, open wound for many of us and we won't get over Vietnam until those who remember it are all dead. It's just not possible. Vietnam was different.
Kids being kid of which every single last one of us in here were a kid before, so noone should be passing judgement. This is a non-story in my opinion.
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