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Vietnam Memorial Wall Defaced This Weekend (September 7-9, 2007)
Eyewitnesses to the damage, Concretebob, Mr. and Mrs. Trooprally ^ | September 9, 2007

Posted on 09/09/2007 6:55:45 PM PDT by tgslTakoma

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To: sport

I actually think it’s the opposite effect—those Americans who do NOT vote! Only a small percentage of the American population actually makes the effort to get out and vote in elections. :-(

Sometimes I wonder if the law said you have to vote, what the true results would be?


281 posted on 09/10/2007 7:20:48 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: tgslTakoma

SDS HAS WANTED TO “SPRAY” the memorial since at least march. Google DC vietnam memorial vandalized OR vandals its very enlightening.


282 posted on 09/10/2007 7:26:07 AM PDT by omega4179 (Was one of the guys named Mohammed?)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
What meaning! What a legacy! To soil someone else’s hallowed ground.

They are no better than the Taliban in that regard.

283 posted on 09/10/2007 7:28:39 AM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: tgslTakoma

PING-bump to a possible perp jumping the gun.


284 posted on 09/10/2007 7:32:02 AM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: Shelayne
What kind of low-life pond scum would do this to a memorial to our fallen?

The thing is they don't consider them "our fallen". The leftists were unabashedly on the side of the VC and North in the Vietnamese war. "Our fallen" for them our the many Communist soldiers who died, fighting the USA.

It is entirely predictable that they hate the Monument and wish to deface it.

It is a reminder of the rightness of the cause of those who gave the ultimate sacrafice for the freedom of those they did not even know. As a Commie you'd have to hate that.

285 posted on 09/10/2007 7:34:42 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: tgslTakoma

I am almost afraid to say anything for fear that I would be banned. I’ll just say this is despicable.


286 posted on 09/10/2007 7:39:36 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: tgslTakoma

Please provide an update when action by the Park Service is taken to clean/repair the damage and what action, if any, the Park Service police is taking to prevent this from happening again.

I’ve only been there once and it was a very, very moving and emotional experience. I join others in outrage over this senseless act of vandalism.


287 posted on 09/10/2007 7:47:53 AM PDT by CedarDave (Vietnam vet supporting today's freedom fighting men and women and their families.)
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To: ReignOfError

tgslTakoma just called me at work. She went down to the memorial with a video camera. She’s on her way back and she’s going to post the video on Google Video or YouTube.

She told me the oil marks run the entire length of the wall and appear to be blantant intentional defacing. She’ll have more to show and tell when she gets back. Stay tuned.


288 posted on 09/10/2007 8:11:51 AM PDT by BufordP (Had Mexicans flown planes into the World Trade Center, Jorge Bush would have surrendered.)
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To: kenth
I understand recognizing the fact that there is no definitive proof that it was vandalism. I don’t understand the need to conjure up scenarios in order to explain away vandalism.

As I clarified in an earlier post, it wasn't my intention to "explain away" vandalism -- that may well be what it is. I was bothered by the assumption not that it's vandalism but that the "usual suspects" are behind it, so I presented some alternative hypotheses. The point I wanted to drive home was that we don't yet know what happened.

289 posted on 09/10/2007 8:27:27 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: cyclotic
I’ve seen the moving wall and the real one. For some reason, the moving one is more emotional to me.

It hits closer to home, in the most literal sense. On the Mall, well, you're on the Mall -- there are memorials everywhere you look. The moving wall is in front of a backdrop you see every day.

290 posted on 09/10/2007 8:32:46 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: tgslTakoma

Bastards!


291 posted on 09/10/2007 8:47:34 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: muawiyah

Your statement is an oxymoron (smile). The left wing IS mentally unbalanced.


292 posted on 09/10/2007 8:49:28 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: mware

I was at the first one and just can’t make this one. I will be at all the rest.


293 posted on 09/10/2007 8:50:05 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (Say Cheese.)
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To: muawiyah

Your statement is an oxymoron (smile). The left wing IS mentally unbalanced.


294 posted on 09/10/2007 8:50:11 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: tgslTakoma

The Park Service stood by just like the Capitol Police last year when some Lefties vandalized the Capitol steps. No one was charged. They should have held the host group responsible. Beyond disgusting! Beyond appalling!


296 posted on 09/10/2007 9:08:49 AM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: RGSpincich
oil candle spill/residue?

Not very likely; actually, not likely at all, from what I saw of the damage firsthand this morning. I arrived shortly after 9:30am (street parking opens up then) and walked the entire length of The Wall, from east to west, with video camera rolling. The oily-looking dribbles began at Panel 48E and continued all the way to the west panels. I don't have the exact panel numbers that were sprayed, because I am just now watching the video. I will post more info as soon as I have gone through the video.

And I will post the video on You Tube, hopefully before nightfall.

It also appears that the same oily stuff was dribbled on the pedestal for the nurses' (at the fallen soldier's feet) statue and the walkway around it, though not as extensive as The Wall.

There are some similar oily dribbles at the cobblestone by the Brothers statue, but the statue itself appeared OK. It is surrounded by a short chain fence and sticker bushes.

I am going to work on the video right now. Back in a few hours.

Very disturbing to see this damage in person.

297 posted on 09/10/2007 9:19:13 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: Bob J; VAFlagwaver; concretebob; trooprally
I have to explain something!! When VAflagWaver,concretbob,and myself were waiting in line to go for the Walk, CB says that the Wall was defaced. I said can I go look. The three of us went and I was shocked to see that. After taking pictures I spoke to a park police officer , she proceeded to tell me that this happened Friday NIGHT!! She asked if I knew who would of done this. I told her possibly a group called ANSWER she said unless you have a name then there is nothing they can do.
said did the police know about this she said NO!!
Today Tgsl went to video tape the Wall and and found also the Three soldiers and the Nurses monuments were also defaced!! She will be posting a video on everything. It should be some time this afternoon.
[Mrs T]
298 posted on 09/10/2007 9:23:40 AM PDT by trooprally (Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
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To: trooprally

I wish a dc freeper could get down there and get the name badge# etc of a park service employee and get them onrecord as knowing about it and not cleaning it.


299 posted on 09/10/2007 9:34:19 AM PDT by omega4179 (Was one of the guys named Mohammed?)
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To: HiJinx; All
YEP.

fwiw, i had a "very bad feeling" all weekend about NOT having GOE marshals AT the wall FRI AM - TUE AM. (sadly, i was evidently correct.)

my "crystal ball" sees "a BAD OUTCOME" for "the doers" WHEN (rather than IF) we find out WHO "the guilty party(s)" are.

FACT!!! ("everybody knows" that we "old vietnam-era vets" are "REALLY CRAZY" & "VIOLENCE-PRONE"!!!!)

free dixie,sw

300 posted on 09/10/2007 9:45:10 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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