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It’s official: Someone vandalized the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
HotAir.com ^ | September 17th, 2007 | BRYAN

Posted on 09/17/2007 12:56:01 PM PDT by Lady J USA 1981

Here’s our video report on the wall’s defacement. Due to YouTube’s (lack of) clarity, it’s hard to see. But about two-thirds of the memorial was defaced along the bottom with some unknown chemical agent that soaked into the granite surface enough to discolor it. Several panels were evidently splashed with the same substance.

The Park Police originally stated that the discoloration was the result of a “cleaning accident,” but now they’re saying that it was vandalism, and they’re investigating: The unidentified substance that was found splashed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial earlier this month was the result of vandalism, the U.S. Park Police said today. Sgt. Robert Lachance, a spokesman for the Park Police, said the investigation into the incident is continuing, but the detective on the case had ruled it an act of vandalism. Lachance said he could provide no more details because the probe is still underway.

The oily substance was first reported to police the evening of Sept. 7, National Park Service officials have said. Dark blotches were found along a stone curb at the base of the memorial for most of its length, and at least two of the wall’s panels appeared to have had something splashed on them.

There is a reward for information that leads to the perpetrators.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: goe; memorialdesecration; thewall; vandalism; veitnamwall; vietnamwall

1 posted on 09/17/2007 12:56:03 PM PDT by Lady J USA 1981
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To: Lady J USA 1981

Regarding this, someone should ask Hillary if she approves of the actions of her supporters.


2 posted on 09/17/2007 12:59:00 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (See Rock City!)
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To: Lady J USA 1981

Bump!


3 posted on 09/17/2007 12:59:40 PM PDT by HiJinx (Learn to take as a measure of success the criticism of your enemies. RL.)
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To: Lady J USA 1981

I suppose the Park Polices’ heads are up their you know whats? I sure hope they catch these people. Some security.


4 posted on 09/17/2007 1:00:28 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: freekitty

Probably left town on the last hippie bus.


5 posted on 09/17/2007 1:02:43 PM PDT by steve8714
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To: Lady J USA 1981

Where was Kerry when it happened?


6 posted on 09/17/2007 1:04:27 PM PDT by Wil H (Turning $1000 into $100,000 through cattle futures requires the "willing suspension of disbelief")
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To: Wil H

Smoking dope with Jane Fonda


7 posted on 09/17/2007 1:05:57 PM PDT by Lady J USA 1981
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To: Lady J USA 1981

Whoever within the Park Police attributed this to a “cleaning accident” should be fired for the attempted cover up of THEIR failure to protect the memorial....

In a SANE WORLD — all Federal funds going to leftist organizations, NPR, Universities that disallow military recruiting and funds to provide police to protect Leftist marchers or protesters should be DIVERTED TO REPLACING ALL THE DAMAGED PIECES...

If this Government allows this sullied Memorial to remain in it’s sullied state — there will be an unimaginable hell to pay...... Leftists will pay a terrible price......


8 posted on 09/17/2007 1:13:15 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat

Hate-filled liberals bump


9 posted on 09/17/2007 1:22:33 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not)
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To: river rat

Of course they waited until the anti-war rally to announce this.


10 posted on 09/17/2007 1:22:35 PM PDT by Stashiu (RVN, 1969-70)
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To: river rat

Of course they waited until after the anti-war rally to announce this.


11 posted on 09/17/2007 1:22:57 PM PDT by Stashiu (RVN, 1969-70)
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To: Lady J USA 1981

When they catch the slime, don’t question his patriotism, or assume that he will vote DemocRAT.


12 posted on 09/17/2007 1:24:16 PM PDT by Hacklehead (I'm not here to make friends.)
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To: Lady J USA 1981

Kerry and Hitlery would burst into flames if they came near that wall. IMHO.


13 posted on 09/17/2007 1:26:50 PM PDT by Tolkien (There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: Lady J USA 1981
Did the Park Police assign Larry, Moe, Curly, Shemp to this case. Maybe they assigned Joe.

Or are the Park Police trying to act like the Keystone Cops...

Almost two weeks have passed before they have done much of anything except to say a crime was comitted...

14 posted on 09/17/2007 1:30:11 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: river rat
"If this Government allows this sullied Memorial to remain in it’s sullied state — there will be an unimaginable hell to pay...... Leftists will pay a terrible price......"

They should put up the money for a brass plaque and invite FR or some legitimate veterans' group to provide appropriate words to explain why the wall is scarred.

15 posted on 09/17/2007 1:32:39 PM PDT by norton
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To: Lady J USA 1981

The GOE might have to mount a 24 hour guard.

The Park Police not only allowed the defacement, they tried to cover it up.


16 posted on 09/17/2007 1:36:28 PM PDT by Lexington Green (There ain't no news in the news no more.)
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To: Lady J USA 1981
With nearly every square inch of D.C. under video surveilance,
is the Wall not under surveilence?
If not, why?
Wouldn’t one of our muckie mucks in power think this might be a good idea?
17 posted on 09/17/2007 2:04:36 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: river rat
If this Government allows this sullied Memorial to remain in it’s sullied state — there will be an unimaginable hell to pay...... Leftists will pay a terrible price......

Either that or a sign with something to the effect of "Damage to the Wall courtesy Liberal Hate Group".

I prefer the sign myself, as would my friend whose name is probably one of those defaced.

It's important to have reminders of who America's enemies are.

18 posted on 09/17/2007 3:03:55 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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‘Spitting’ on dead soldiers. Nam Vets. The spit at least didn’t used to stay.


19 posted on 09/17/2007 4:13:27 PM PDT by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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