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  • Kathleen Parker: A monumental mistake

    10/05/2013 7:55:26 AM PDT · by Innovative · 79 replies
    Washington Post ^ | Oct 5, 203 | Kathleen Parker
    In more recent history, when a group of World War II veterans recently faced barriers blocking entry to the memorial — an open space requiring not so much as an attendant — these elderly warriors took a page from their Normandy playbook and stormed the barricades. Can there be an image more inspiring than members of this venerable club, whose living roll declines each day by about 640, pushing their way through flimsy, useless, pointless barriers to roam among pillars erected to their heroism? What was Washington thinking? Ditto the closing of the D-Day cemetery in Normandy, France, where more...