“I agree with this 100%. This is a MEMORIAL folks.”
Big friggin deal. The way in which individuals choose to conduct themselves at memorial sites are their business, provided they are not desecrating or vandalizing property,and/or threatening/harming individuals.
I guess behavioral modification, if you will, is acceptable in this instance. Arbitrary censoring is fine in this case? I don’t need some Park Police telling me how to behave in public if I’m not braking any laws. If you find public displays of patriotism in such places annoying, or disturbing to your peace, I suggest you visit memorials late at night. No one is denying you of that, but don’t deny us the right to live freely, even at memorial sites.
Spare me the sanctimony. We conservatives do the right thing whether there is a law against it or not. Disturbing others at a place of reflection or study is boorish, it’s bad manners. We don’t sing at libraries, we don’t sing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, we don’t sing inside the Lincoln or any other memorial. That is, we don’t if our parents taught us to be respectful of others in solemn places.