Thread: WWII Veterans Plan To Storm Lincoln Memorial Today, Closed Due To Obama Admin Pettine

WeazelZippers
10/02/2013

WWII Veterans Plan To Storm Lincoln Memorial Today, Closed Due To Obama Admin Pettiness


The same veterans group that managed to storm the gates at the WWII memorial yesterday is planning taking on the fences at the Lincoln Memorial today. This sounds like a capitol idea, pun intended.

Both memorials are open air memorials. The Lincoln Memorial is open 24 hours a day, normally. If you’ll recall, it was wide open to having someone throw green paint on it in the evening a few months ago.

So that means the Obama administration is making a conscious effort to spend more in time and money to shut off something which is normally open.

How ridiculous is this effort by President Obama to make the people “hurt” so he can blame it on Republicans, just as he did with the sequester, which was also his idea?

We still don’t have access to the White House, the people’s house, allegedly because of the sequester, although Obama has spent countless of our millions since then on vacations, parties and golf.

When you have the opportunity to pass bills for veterans and national parks, unconnected to Obamacare, and then don’t pass them, or spend more to close spaces then to keep them open, the reason is simply you want to continue to have people feel the pain.

And that, Mr. President, is sick.



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Democrat gangsta tactics.

They were ready with barriers.
Obama admin. knew about WWII veterans’ request and rejected it

10/01/2013
Charles C. Johnson

The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office to have World War II veterans visit the World War II memorial in Washington, the Mississippi Republican told The Daily Caller Tuesday.

Palazzo helped the veterans commit an act of civil disobedience against the Park Service Tuesday, when the heroes stormed through barricades around the closed memorial.

The veterans were visiting the memorial as part of Honor Flight, a non-profit that provides veterans free transport to the nation’s capital to visit the memorials to the wars they fought in.

“We got the heads up that they will be barricaded and specifically asked for an exception for these heroes,” Palazzo told TheDC. “We were denied and told, ‘It’s a government shutdown, what do you expect?’ when we contacted the liaison for the White House.”

Palazzo’s office was in touch with the heads of the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior and the Capitol Police. He says all these officials rejected his request to allow the veterans, many of whom are octogenarians and some of whom are in poor health, to attend.

Palazzo, a Gulf War Marine veteran who has participated in all five of the Honor Flights, blames the White House for making it harder on veterans and playing politics. “At first I thought it was a huge bureaucratic oversight,” Palazzo told The Daily Caller, “but having talked with the officials I can’t help but think this was politically motivated. Honor Flights, which bring WWII veterans to the nation’s memorials, are planned a year in advance and cost anywhere between $80,000 to $100,000. How low can you get with playing politics over our nation’s veterans?”

In a statement, Palazzo noted that he is introducing legislation to ensure that all Honor Flights are granted access this week. “This is an open-air memorial that the public has 24/7 access to under normal circumstances — even when Park Service personnel aren’t present,” Palazzo said in the statement. “It actually requires more effort and expense to shut out these veterans from their Memorial than it would to simply let them through. My office has been in touch with NPS officials and the Administration to try to resolve this issue.”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/01/ob...d-rejected-it/

Privately-funded WWII memorial barricaded at taxpayer’s expense

10/02/2013
Caroline May
Political Reporter

While the World War II memorial has been at the center of government shutdown posturing this week, the park itself actually came about largely through private funding.

According to the memorial’s website, “National World War II Memorial was funded almost entirely by private contributions, as specified in Public Law 103-32. The campaign received more than $197 million in cash and pledges. Support came from hundreds of thousands of individual Americans, hundreds of corporations and foundations, veterans groups, dozens of civic, fraternal and professional organizations, states and one territory, and students in 1,200 schools across the country.”

The World War II memorial was closed Tuesday in light of the government shutdown.
The closure made national news Tuesday and Wednesday as World War II veterans, travelling with the Honor Flight program, responded to the closure by moving the barriers to entry and visiting their monument.

According to the memorial’s webpage, donations and pledges were used to fund the $182 million memorial project costs — which “includes site selection and design, construction and sculpture, a National Park Service maintenance fee required by the Commemorative Works Act, groundbreaking and dedication ceremonies, fund raising, and the 11-year administrative costs of the project from its inception in 1993 through completion in 2004.”

“Remaining funds are held on deposit with the U.S. Treasury in a National WWII Memorial Trust Fund,” the memorial website reads. “The funds will be used by the American Battle Monuments Commission solely to benefit the World War II Memorial.”
Though conceived by largely private funds, the memorial is operated and maintained by the National Park Service.

“Because of the federal government shutdown, all national parks are closed and National Park Service webpages are not operating,” the National Park Service website read Wednesday.

While the WWII Memorial is open 24 hours a day on a normal schedule, according to a report from CNN, the barricades around the monument were due to health and maintenance concerns.

“I know that this is an open-air memorial, but we have people on staff who are CPR trained, (and) we want to make sure that we have maintenance crew to take care of any problems. What we’re trying to do is protect this resource for future generations,” National Mall and Memorial Parks spokeswoman Carol Johnson told CNN.
(H/T Weasel Zippers)

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/02/pr...ayers-expense/