An idea for a small addition to the Monument to Victims of Communism

Vanity | 6/15/2007 | Our Man in Washington

[Our man in washington]

This past week, Washington, DC put up a monument to the Victims of Communism. Please see http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/ for the details.

I had an idea for a small addition to the monument. This addition wouldn't be built in Washington, however. It would have to be built 150.8 miles away.

Let's say you built a wall with the same height and number of names per square foot as the Vietnam War Memorial. That wall would have to be 150.8 miles long to record the names of all those killed by Communism. (I'm using the estimate of 94 million deaths.)

I thought it would be useful to put a small monument at the spot where this wall would have to end if it started at the Monument to the Victims of Communism.

This small monument could thus be in the heart of small-town America. It would just require a small spot 150.8 miles from Washington, DC. Possibilities could include spots near White Deer Pennsylvania, Grafton, West Virgina, or Bracey, Vriginia. Perhaps one of those small towns might like the attention.

It would probably get some publicity, since some reporters would think it a human-interest story. It would be a dramatic gesture to educate people about the horrors of communism.

[Our man in washington]

If freepers think the idea is positive in theory, I could explore ideas about how to make it actually happen. Or if you all think it's ridiculous, tell me now. I have a thick skin.

[traditional1]

After Hildabeast wins in ‘08, they can increase the size of the monument to recognize that the entire USA has gone communist, with her and the Congress imposing their socialist will on all of us!

[G8 Diplomat]

Let's say you built a wall with the same height and number of names per square foot as the Vietnam War Memorial. That wall would have to be 150.8 miles long to record the names of all those killed by Communism. (I'm using the estimate of 94 million deaths.)

Good idea. The sheer size of it would maybe force people to stop griping about Vietnam and get them to realize that there are nations out there who killed more people than Americans died in Vietnam.

Of course, if Hitlery gets elected you'd have to write the name of every US citizen on the wall

[G8 Diplomat]

Oh wait, I just thought of another idea. I dunno why it didn’t come to me before. We should build a wall memorial monument like the one for Vietnam for the victims of 9/11. To be honest, why is the Vietnam wall even there? What about WW2, a much more devastating war in which more Americans died and for a successful cause; that is, one their countrymen didn’t abandon halfway through and one where they actually supported the war effort, an effort which had great results for the world. I’m not trying to undermine those who died in Vietnam, but if you’re going to put up memorials they should be for more siginficant events. We have a Pearl Harbor memorial, why not one for 9/11?