{"id":38829,"date":"2013-10-02T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38829"},"modified":"2013-10-02T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T18:03:47","slug":"38829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38829","title":{"rendered":"Tear Down This Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be <em>the <\/em>definitive image of the Obama regime &#8211; unionized government employees putting up barricades around the World War 2 memorial in the face of World War 2 veterans whose wheelchairs they are scarcely fit to push.<\/p>\n<p>But if I have any say over it,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/10\/02\/new-wave-wwii-veterans-move-barricades-to-access-dc-memorial\/?intcmp=latestnews\"> it will be<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new wave of veterans were forced to move barricades at the WWII Memorial in Washington Wednesday morning to gain access during the government slimdown, a spokeswoman from Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., told FoxNews.com.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6NQEegq_gIb9At9TfB2DnQBNRqBfqSwA\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bear in mind that these monuments and memorials are usually accessible 24\/7, without the need for government workers to be standing around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But no matter.\u00a0 Harry Reid&#8217;s passive-aggressive snit must be carried out &#8211; veterans be damned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The WWII veterans, from Ohio, Kansas and Missouri, arrived at the memorial one day after another group relied on the assistance from elected officials to move the barricades to allow access. Parks police did not prevent the first group from entering, nor did they interfere with Wednesday&#8217;s group.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaszhajok.com\/Repulogephordozok\/USS_Franklin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"339\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Reid&#8217;s kamikaze mission strikes again.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The veterans vowed to make the trek to D.C. regardless of the situation in Washington. When asked how they were going to visit the World War II Memorial when it\u2019s closed, Ian Drake, a WWII veteran, told Fox4KC.com the group will &#8220;find a way in, one way or another. We might have to climb or something. It&#8217;s no problem. Well work it out when we get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.azcaf.org\/images\/crew_pos\/bombardierflaklak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"258\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heavy flak then, heavy flak now.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The veterans are traveling as part of Honor Flight , a program that enables World War II veterans to partake in an expense-paid trip to view the memorial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of my old comrades were lost in World War II,&#8221; Ian Drake, a WWII veteran told the station. &#8220;Eighteen of 100 in my graduating class were lost in World War II, so it&#8217;s important for me to show my respect at the memorial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 481px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oldwww.marshfield.k12.wi.us\/socsci\/ww2\/14\/hurtg2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"220\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s not the first bunch of barricades they&#8217;ve pushed aside, after all.<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep it up, Democrats.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be the definitive image of the Obama regime &#8211; unionized government employees putting up barricades around the World War 2 memorial in the face of World War 2 veterans whose wheelchairs they are scarcely fit to push. But if I have any say over it,\u00a0 it will be A new wave of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,64],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-38829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-president-obama","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38833,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829\/revisions\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}