Posted on 06/23/2020 9:05:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
A World War II memorial in North Carolina’s largest city was reportedly defaced over the weekend with a hammer and sickle.
The 20-foot-tall memorial, located at Evergreen Cemetery in Charlotte, contains the names of more than 500 county residents who died fighting in WWII, WBTV reported.
Somewhere between Sunday evening and Monday morning, it was defaced with references to communism, including a hammer and sickle and the words: “Glory to the day of heroism June 19, 1986.”
The phrase is a reference to a prison massacre in Peru, in which some 224 people were killed by the military after a series of riots.
A portion of the WWII monument that read, “Dedicated to the memory of the Mecklenburg heroes of World War II who made the supreme sacrifice that you might live in liberty, freedom and peace,” was also covered in yellow paint.
Later Monday, a group of people were spotted scrubbing off the paint. U.S. Air Force veteran Wayne White told Fox 17 he rounded up some friends to help clean the monument after seeing images of the defacing on social media.
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Wayne White, a US Air Force Vet, rounded up some friends and is working to help clean up a Charlotte WWII memorial after seeing on social media that it had been defaced.
Wayne told the station that the names on the memorial “are veterans and deserve the honor, respect, and dignity.”
The monument’s defacing comes as other historic monuments and statutes have become the targets of anger and vandalism during nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody late last month.
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These people should be quickly identified and punished.
“Glory to the day of heroism June 19, 1986.”
The Sendero Luminoso. Nice folks. Look them up.
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If I’m not mistaken, the prisoners in Peru were Shining Path insurgents.
“The ONLY good Commie is a DEAD Commie”.
It’s time to go out and start making Good Commies.
Nikki Haley led the way
I keep saying this country is unfastening faster than the USSR did in the late 80’s. But I’ve been countered on that. Personally, I think I’m right.
Enough with the Red Communist lie that these vandals are “anti-Fascist”. They are anti-American. They slur those who died fighting REAL far Left Fascism.
All in public, word has gotta get out there.
I thought that cleaning up vandalism was considered racist and an example of white privilege.
I left off the photo caption.
These are the cleaner uppers.
These people should be quickly identified and shot.
“I left off the photo caption.These are the cleaner uppers.”
That makes sense since they are not trying to disguise themselves. So to the cleaner uppers in the picture: God Bless You!
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Feathers.
Nikki Haley indeed, the beginning.
If the CIA was what it pretended to be in the movies, these effs would get killed in “carjackings gone wrong”.
These people need to be locked up for ten years.
Wayne White, a US Air Force Vet, rounded up some friends and is working to help clean up a Charlotte WWII memorial after seeing on social media that it had been defaced.
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In my world every one of the miscreants I could round up would be fastened to a Jersey barrier with welded chain. They’d then be given an unlimited supply of toothbrushes, baking soda, and spray bottles and would be released when every molecule of paint had been removed from said memorial. And they’d sleep right there on the concrete under the stars until they were finished. Bread and water courtesy of the county.
This is in NORTH Carolina. Where is Governor Cooper? Oh, that’s right. He’s busy enabling the removal of two statues from the statehouse in Raleigh. Where are the police? National Guard? We just let this crap take place in broad daylight. It’s as if nobody cares. Well, as the son of a highly decorated WWII veteran, I can tell you, I care.
Local residents help clean up a World War II monument in Charlotte that had been defaced.
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