'Greatest generation' veterans sweep past barricades at memorial in their honor

[03mustangdude]

history will look back on these days as the beginning of the end.

[ceyko]

Boy, they sure are showing those 90 something year Veterans how effective they are at stuff.

[sc281]

http://twitchy.com/2013/10/02/barry-cades-confirmed-park-service-says-obama-admin-ordered-closure-of-world-war-ii-memorial/

The obama white house ordered the closure and specificalky excepted park service personnel from the furlough to do it.

No tyranny like petty tyranny.

[F8LSVT]

Good for them! I hope those vets keep giving them hell!

[helosailor]

http://twitchy.com/2013/10/02/barry-...r-ii-memorial/

The obama white house ordered the closure and specificalky excepted park service personnel from the furlough to do it.

No tyranny like petty tyranny.

I hope every media outlet with anything remotely resembling a set of balls (or, barring that, a shred of journalistic integrity) seizes this and runs with it.

[SS Junk]

I'm just glad I'm in the essential personnel group. On the bright side traffic is non-existent.

[Strychnine]

Related story:

Normandy American Cemetery And Memorial Closed Because Of Government Shutdown


PARIS -- PARIS (AP) — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government's partial shutdown.

The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.

The cemeteries are maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, set up after the First World War. Nearly 125,000 U.S. servicemen and women are buried at its cemeteries, and an additional 94,000 are commemorated on tablets of the missing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/normandy-american-cemetery-closed_n_4029114.html

[Sean88gt]

In 50 years, no one will remember Boehner, but they will remember Obama.

[Gtracer]

In 50 years, no one will remember Boehner, but they will remember Obama.

I think this is all he cares about...maybe one reason he is un-willing to change/negotiate ACA

[Forever_frost]

They got pissed about the vets moving the barricades so now those 'Barry-cades" have steel bands holding them together.

[Trip McNeely]

If they're anything like the Mexican border fences then, LOL.

[Forever_frost]

If they're anything like the Mexican border fences then, LOL.

Oh no, these are steel barricades with steel bands holding them together with park security watching them. There is currently more security keeping people out of the WW2 memorial than was guarding the consulate in Benghazi on 9/11

[Trip McNeely]

I hope these Vets and more keep challenging these Gestapo tactics.

[Forever_frost]

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/05/developing-national-park-service-blocks-roads-to-keep-drivers-from-viewing-mount-rushmore/

Now closing the roads to Mt. Rushmore

[Forever_frost]

Rangers with dogs sent to intimidate at memorial:



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