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The Freebeacon headline says - Biden Nixes Veterans’ Memorial Event - sounds like it’s canceled
The article says :
The event was jeopardized at the last moment after the Pentagon declined to issue a permit allowing the group to gather in its parking lot, citing restrictions associated with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Biden administration officials "refused to talk with event organizers" and "refused to respond to Congress about this topic," according to Rep. Darrel Issa (R., Calif.), who was one of several members to petition the Pentagon in April to approve the event.
The Pentagon approved the permit in March and then rescinded the decision this week without any explanation, according to Issa and Rep. Ken Calvert (R., Calif.), who also criticized the Biden administration's decision. Permits for the event, which is hosted each year by the nonprofit group American Veterans, were approved by the Department of Transportation, the Department of the Interior, and several state-based agencies. The Pentagon's decision to deny the group a permit "leaves patriotic veterans without a safe alternative" to gather, Issa said.
I guess a case can be made that Biden has zero control over the Pentagon.
RollingThunder says the event will go forward and it’s not cancelled. AMVETS NOW DOES THIS EVENT.
The Military Times has a better headline and story - Pentagon rejects plan to use its parking lots for annual Memorial Day motorcycle rally Defense officials have denied veterans advocates permission to stage their annual Memorial Day motorcycle rally at the Pentagon parking lot, saying the crowd size poses a potential public health threat given the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The decision will force up to 10,000 participants already planning on attending the event to set up somewhere else in Washington for the weekend, complicating — but not outright cancelling — the annual tradition.
Bottom Line is Event can NOT meet at the Pentagon parking lot as they have done for over 30 years.
Nobody at the Pentagon will say who made the decision and apparently nobody actually knows who actually makes Pentagon decisions. Looks like Veterans are just not that important.
Or maybe they’re important enough that the Pentagon doesn’t want to create a super-spreader event full of veterans.
Rolling Thunder operated a motorcycle ride through Washington for 32 years before hosting its last event in 2019. AMVETS took over in 2020 and planned an event to replace the popular ride. It was designed to raise awareness for prisoners of war and troops still missing in action, as well as the issue of veteran suicide. The event, now titled Rolling to Remember, was canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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