{"id":37785,"date":"2013-10-01T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37785"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:25:29","slug":"vets-take-back-their-wwii-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37785","title":{"rendered":"Vets take back their WWII Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Washington Post<\/a> reports that ninety veterans stormed the barricades at the World War II Memorial in DC today. According to the story, they arrived on an Honor Flight at about 10 o’clock this morning for the explicit purpose of seeing their memorial and, by golly, they did, with help of some Congressmen and the tacit approval of the Park Police;<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to enforce the \u2018no stopping or standing\u2019 sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans,\u201d said a U.S. Park Police officer, who declined to give his name. \u201cI\u2019m a veteran myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The veterans, from Mississippi, were visiting the memorial on the Mall as part of an honor flight program. They had chartered an $80,000 airplane, and their plans were too far advanced to postpone when the government shut down, said Wayne Lennep, spokesman for the Mississippi Gulf Coast honor flights.<\/p>\n

The group arrived at Reagan National Airport at 10 a.m. on a flight from Gulfport, Miss. By 11 a.m., the veterans were on the Mall, where the many memorials and monuments were supposed to be closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the best civil disobedience we\u2019ve seen in Washington for a long time,\u201d [Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.)] told the group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The German and Japanese Armies didn’t scare them, what are a few barricades?<\/p>\n

Oh, if you have anger issues, stay out of the comments on the WaPo article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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