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National Park Service Are Doing A Good Job Trying To Clean The Vietnam Veterans Memorial WALL in Washington DC
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Originally Posted by ProudCapMarine
The National Park Service Still Has Not Released Their Findings On Their Investigation Of The Defacement Of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial WALL in Washington DC.
(Checkout the pictures at the next link to see if it was Anti-War/PEACE Protestors' Desecration or a NPS Cleaning Accident.) Vietnam Memorial Wall Defaced This Weekend (September 7-9, 2007)
Personally, I strongly feel that the National Park Service is aware that The Wall was desecrated by Anti-War/PEACE Protestors, but they did not want to release their findings prior to Anti-War Protestors meeting with Gathering of Eagles on this past Saturday, September 15, 2007.
This is just my opinion. Jack
Florida EAGLES were at the wall on Thursday and Friday, explaining to visitors that the Wall was vandalized. Many who first saw the wall before talking to one of us thought the Wall was just dirty and unkept. The NPS workers told us when we first showed up at 1100 on Thursday that the Wall was vandalized by someone throwing an oily substance at the panels, granite curb and cobblestones. We also got to talk with the lady who was doing the chemical treatments to try and lift the oil off the granite curb. By Friday morning, they had pressure washed it for the 5th time, and I must say that it looked 95% better than what it looked like in the initial pictures.
None of the names were defaced in such a manner as to prevent getting etchings. The major problem now is with the oil that seeped into the etched names, which prevents them from standing out against the smooth black granite and near impossible to photograph.
There is a camera that has shots of the Wall and we were told by NPS that the DC Metro Police have the film. Personally I think it was one or more of the creeps on that DC Indymedia web site who have threatened the Wall in the past.
A visit to the Wall is always an emotional experience, especially for a Vietnam vet. I'm sitting here crying as I type this because I saw how wounded so many were when they came to visit and found out that their Wall had been vandalized. The raw emotion on the faces of men who saw the damage up close and personal is difficult to put into words. When they catch the jerks who did this, I hope they give him/her/them to the vets for justice.
I will agree that the NPS was probably holding off on publically announcing the damage because the EAGLES were headed to town. MilVets guarded the Wall Friday night until Sunday night I think.
Deborah
Gathering of Eagles Florida Coordinator Gathering of Eagles
You say to reset the clock. It's not 1967. It still is for some. You can't reset it. You can't get over it.
You go to work one day with 18 people. You get hit. The medic that is working on you is talking and then his head explodes. Then a buddy that has no medical experience other then basic first aid is plugging you with morphene or at least sprinkling powdered morphine on you. A huey comes in to get your sorry butt out of there. Only it's shot down. The second one comes in and is able to pick you up, and the other 2 surviving soldiers. But you were wounded so all you got to do is watch all of your buddy's wilt away under gun fire.
And you want one of us to reset the clock? Yeah, we can reset it to the day that we got out of the hospital and were ordered back to our unit only to find 15 new faces. All of them looking at you to lead them because you are a Veteran and know what it's like.
40 years. A whole new generation of Vietnamese have come up. They want to be like US. In that respect you won -- but not by fighting. A whole new generation of US kids have come up. None of them are against you, and most truly respect you. In that regard you have won the home front, as well.
There is not a some rabid left wanger conspiracy trying to take your honor or dis- *****- or anything else by messing with memorials. Things really have changed in the world outside during those 40 years. No one would tolerate that now, and the left does tend to be intelligent enough to know anything like would harm their causes.
I can see why you are torked by some of the same things going on then and now if one compares Vietnam to Iraq. Both were started by lies -- and both had innocent troops invoved in crazy things and untold killed and maimed innocent civies. Both were promoted further by larger lies -- but there was no Grand Commie Dominoes and there is no Grand Islamo-Fascist Global take-over. Those are all just lies promoted by nutcases and folks making bank off the deal.
Really it has been 40 years. Time to call a truce and make peace in your mind and soul while you still have some life left to enjoy. Life can be a happy place when we let it.
One of the seven is an Iraq War Memorial that has been attacked twice already in July 2007.
Iraq War Memorial Vandalized
The Iraq War Memorial near Mt. Pleasant, Michigan was vandalized. The Iraq Memorial is at Island Park in Isabella county.
Police say that they don't believe that it was a 'hate crime', merely an 'anti-war crime'." Yeah, right.
This Iraq war memorial was vandalized twice in July. Someone torched the flag, bent the flag pole over, tore up the flowers left by the families for their loved ones, and caused "other destruction".
Police think the vandalism may have happened in two separate incidents, one earlier this month and another over the weekend.
The memorial was erected in 2005 for the Late LCPL Justin Ellsworth and all the men and women who have served and are serving in Iraq.
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National Park Service Are Doing A Good Job Trying To Clean The Vietnam Veterans Memorial WALL in Washington DC
