Um, kids do tend to play. Don’t they.
Is it a little Mexican? Looks like it in the pic.
I will cut some slack for the kids. They are probably too young to know better, but their parents should have taught them to respect older people and war memorials. Where are the parents?
What do kids know without supervision?
That ‘vet’ doesn’t seem too pleased.
They’re Americans in waiting, give’em a break.\s
The statue seems to be inspired by The Pieta, an iconic pose of Mary with an adult dead Jesus figure sprawled prone over her lap. Children will play, and the parent may not have even known the story of this particular piece. If you are creating a 3D sculpture to stay outside, you have to plan for such possibilities of rough handling.
Looks Mex.
Wrong. I’m not furious. Therefore everyone is NOT furious about it
Those kids have to grow up in a post Obama America. Cut them some slack.
Grrrl Power!
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Thanks for posting, RM.
No National Park Police, eh?
People these days let their spawn climb all over everything out of control.
I have read the thread this far and can not understand the replies.
If I were there...I would call the children down with a promise of telling them the story of the art they just see as playground equipment. I bet I could get them to stand and honor the memory that it represents before they moved on to another part of the memorial.
I’m not “furious” about this snapshot.
I personally know many male, and a one female combat veterans of the Vietnam War.
I can very easily imagine my friend Sue, disabled while working as EOD in Vietnam, telling her grandchildren to climb up on that monument, and touch every inch of every face depicted.
As for myself and my child, no, I would no more allow my child or grandchild to climb on any public statue, any more than I would allow her to touch a strangers car, or walk on a strangers lawn.
Now ask me about the future grave of Jimmy Carter...and an entirely different family code of conduct would be expected to be applied.
The children depicted were not urinating on and/or defacing the statue.
For all anyone here knows, the older child might have just kissed the depiction of the cheek of one of her dead relatives, and the younger child was awaiting her turn.
Odd that so many people are so very willing to react with outrage, absent any more knowledge than a single snapshot, and a headline...
My friend Sue, wounded in Vietnam, but not officially a “combat veteran”, since women were not allowed in combat back then(LOL) is dead now, but I can easily imagine her with a double middle finger salute to those who imagine they are reverently honoring her “service” in Vietnam.
Just stating my opinion.
And I am certain, Sue’s.
I am a Vietnam veteran. I have no problem with children in and on the memorial. I remember climbing up on WWI and WWII memorials as a child to be closer to the soldiers.
I would have loved to have heard what the WW 2 veteran was thinking. PRICELESS!
I can think of nothing better than to have children playing at a fallen soldiers memorial.
The parents probably had their noses glued to their smart phones, updating their Facebook site. Some gene pools should end earlier than they do.