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Team Obama Denies Veterans Access to Vietnam Memorial
Fox News Nation ^ | June 11, 2012

Posted on 06/11/2012 9:51:18 AM PDT by Kaslin

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Vets denied access to Vietnam Memorial

Due to high security surrounding President Obama’s visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Memorial Day, many veterans were turned away, unable to mourn their fellow soldiers at The Wall.

Retired Army Lieutenant General John Sylvester was one of the vets turned away, and he spoke out about the rebuff on Fox and Friends. Sylvester said that he didn’t take offense on his own behalf, but on behalf of all those who died in the war. He said, “It’s about those 58,000 plus soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines that are represented on that wall. That wall is America’s wall. It is not the presidents wall.”

The organization of which Sylvester is a part, the 11th Armored Cavalry Association, gathers on both Memorial Day and Veterans Day to place a wreath on the wall and to “be able to stand there reflectively, to be able to reach up and touch names of real-life humans, people that we knew, and it is our day as veterans to go and honor those men who are represented on that wall.”

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couple this with what just happened at the air force accademy graduation.

You also have to wonder how many of these are die hard democrats who will forget this and just vote Obama because he is a democrat.


21 posted on 06/11/2012 10:38:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Kaslin

We have a law in place prohibiting demonstrations like Obama’s from taking place there.


22 posted on 06/11/2012 10:39:57 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Whoever is in charge of team obunghole the last couple of weeks is awesome. He could not make the Kenyan look worse if he was trying. I wonder if he is doing it by accident? It is hard to believe they are this incompetent/tone deaf.


23 posted on 06/11/2012 10:41:42 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Either he, or Panetta


24 posted on 06/11/2012 10:43:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: skinkinthegrass
Right! Remember, he WON! If you don't believe me just run something by him he doesn't like and his response is "I won!"

vaudine

25 posted on 06/11/2012 10:50:42 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Actually, Zero suffers from Terminal Cranio-Rectal Inversion.


26 posted on 06/11/2012 10:51:20 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Be yourself. Everyone else is taken!)
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To: Kaslin

Aw oh, it sounds like more of the same type of efforts that led to the security leaks, the attempt to portray Obama as a strong military leader, which he is not.

The Obama administration didn’t want any show of military opposition to his leadership.


27 posted on 06/11/2012 10:54:12 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Kaslin

EVERYthing....including Memorial Day, a day on which we remember those who gave their all in defense of our country, currently led by a putz who never served a day in his life....is about HIM, donchaknow.


28 posted on 06/11/2012 10:59:09 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: Kaslin
There he goes again, President Obama being an insensitive Dumb@$$, hence the title President DumbA$$.
29 posted on 06/11/2012 11:04:38 AM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: Terry Mross
I know veterans who are liberals who will say this is okay.

Some that I work with would say "You conservatives would have complained if he hadn't gone."
30 posted on 06/11/2012 11:19:08 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: skinkinthegrass

They have this silly rule about swearing and calling this piece of ____ what he really is. Such as a low down ________________________________________, son of a stinking ______________________________, maggot infested S___ eating ____________________, _____________________________________, C________________ of ______. I am a former Marine and I served with a lot of these brave men and women. I think you can fill in the blanks. I wasn’t even on a very good roll, remember these words all roll together as one sound.


31 posted on 06/11/2012 11:45:13 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Kaslin; TheOldLady; netmilsmom; tomdavidd; Freeper; Gvl_M3; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; ...
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32 posted on 06/11/2012 12:33:40 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT; little jeremiah; azishot

Thanks for the ping, LucyT.

More 0b0z0 insults to the military, especially what he and his dyke, Napolitano, believe that the retired military are domestic terrorists!

0h0m0 is AFRAID of the military, retired or not! That bodes well for the potential resistance against the violent communist attempt to take over, coming soon to your neighborhood.


33 posted on 06/11/2012 12:47:43 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: Kaslin

....and didn’t see fit to observe D-Day a few days ago.


34 posted on 06/11/2012 1:02:56 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Never Argue With A LIBERAL...They Will Drag You Down To Their Level, Then Beat You With Experience!)
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To: Monkey Face
Actually, Zero suffers from Terminal Cranio-Rectal Inversion.

Zer∅bamagasm™ posing for official portrait:


35 posted on 06/11/2012 1:11:59 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Never Argue With A LIBERAL...They Will Drag You Down To Their Level, Then Beat You With Experience!)
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To: Renderofveils

Or they’ll say “Bush did it, too.”


36 posted on 06/11/2012 1:24:47 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: QT3.14

Yepper! That sez it all!


37 posted on 06/11/2012 1:27:45 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Be yourself. Everyone else is taken!)
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To: QT3.14

Yepper! That sez it all!


38 posted on 06/11/2012 1:28:21 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Be yourself. Everyone else is taken!)
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To: melancholy; LucyT

Doesn’t this make you sick to your stomach? I heard about this before and thought this action was lower than low. I hope he enjoyed his *photo-op*. I want him to one day be able to look at all his pictures....in a jail cell (I hope).


39 posted on 06/11/2012 3:54:29 PM PDT by azishot
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To: jospehm20

Why not? They’ve been incompetent from day 1.

Who ever heard of a President that isn’t allowed to speak in public unless he reads from a teleprompter?


40 posted on 06/11/2012 9:25:14 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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