Posted by Dana on Friday, July 10, 2009 at 14:47:40 :
In Reply to: Re: OT.Veterans Fight to Keep 75-yr. old Mojave Desert Memorial posted by Franz© on Friday, July 10, 2009 at 14:27:23 :
I was just in D.C. a few months ago. The ONLY WWI monument was built right after that war and it's actually a city monument, so it doesn't fall under the protection of the other monuments.
HUH?!??! Why not?!? Didn't young American men fight and die in that war too?? I asked the tour guide about it and she said (not a direct quote, but close...), "Those veterans are all dead so nobody really cares about it anyway."
Okay, so I'm a WWI nut/geek, all my buddies when we were younger got into studying WWII stuff and building models of that war, I went for WWI. But to take the monument down for... what?!? They need the land? The thing is a round, maybe a 50' in diameter building. But to think about removing it?!?... Ridiculous.