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Home Front: Politix

Crowd storms World War II Memorial

2013-10-14

[WTOP] Thousands of people converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday morning and tore down the barricades blocking it off, protesting the closure of the memorial during the federal government shutdown.

Beginning at about 9:30 a.m., Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as former Alaska Gov.

Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin
... the babe libs love to hate ...
, were among the luminaries in a crowd that chanted "Tear down these walls!" and sang "God Bless America" as well as other patriotic songs as they entered the memorial, which has been closed since the government shutdown that began Oct. 1.

Tractor-trailers headed down 17th Street toward the Mall, blaring their horns. The Metropolitan Police Department blocked off the street, prompting the crowd to head up the street, shouting at the police to move their vehicles.

Palin said that closing the memorials was disgraceful, and that President B.O. "could be here today, saying 'Yes, we can tear down these barricades."

Cruz said that President B.O. was using veterans as political pawns in the shutdown. Lee shouted, "The sons and daughters of the United States of America are meant to live in liberty."

By 11 a.m., the group had headed back to the memorial, and dozens congregated around World War II veterans, shaking their hands and thanking them for their service.

Later in the morning, veteran Mike Lauriente was accepting handshakes from demonstrators. He served in Sicily and French Morocco, and declared the memorial, which he was seeing for the first time, beautiful. "The spirit that I see here is overwhelming."

Posted by:Fred

#9 Per MSNBC, CNN and NBC/CBS, those were not veterans, they were Tea Party racists and lunatics, thus no real coverage.

Posted by: OldSpook 2013-10-14 22:50

#8 the Donks will pay heavily at the 2014 elections for messing with the vets.
I predict that as usual the vast majority of incumbents seeking re-election, will be re-elected.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-10-14 16:18

#7 Sadly, great-grandchildren hardly count in the family loyalty game; even grandparents are becoming irrelevant outside flyover country. How many places even have Veterans Day or Memorial Day parades anymore? And how many youth groups march in them?

Posted by: Glenmore 2013-10-14 14:44

#6 The Glenmore is these are WW2 vets which have great grandchildren.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-10-14 14:32

#5 Dale, many (probably most) people don't see media bias as bias because it matches their own bias. And military-related families are becoming a much smaller demographic these days.

Posted by: Glenmore 2013-10-14 13:55

#4 The Donks will pay heavily at the 2014 elections for messing with the vets. Most people are not divided in their feelings of gratitude for the vets. Messing with the vets strikes a deep chord that ticks off most Americans.

Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-14 12:40

#3 "Although WTOP is "The News Source" in D.C." and a very small pie hole share. People are getting their news elsewhere. People see the bias. So much is not told. Word of mouth. AM radio. The audience for NPR and WTOP is getting smaller and smaller as is the advertising revenue. Except Government funding for NPR.

Posted by: Dale 2013-10-14 07:20

#2 Ha! The WaPo this morning reported "one or two hundred demonstrators, and crazy Sarah.

Although WTOP is "The News Source" in D.C.

Posted by: Bobby 2013-10-14 06:02

#1 The end of Obama.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-10-14 00:46

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