On March 17th ANSWER and the rest of the Communists will be lining up for another anti-war protest where they hope to get 100,000 participants (and as usual only muster up a few thousand).
They are planning to begin at the Vietnam Memorial in DC which worries many people since we all know they like to destroy other’s people property. But some Vietnam Veterans want to meet and put up another wall to block them, a wall of bodies:
The plans for the antiwar protest on March 17th appear to be firmed up. Here’s the intel I got from someone in MD. "The area where the "proposed" protesters’ permit has them assemble is on the hill overlooking the Wall (about 50 yards East). Unfortunately the route to the Pentagon from their probable gathering area is between the Wall and the reflecting basin; past the Wall, past the Women in Vietnam Statue and past the Three Soldiers Statue."
This means as they walk by they can do whatever they can imagine, probably not spray paint, but maybe try to hang signs off the statues, paste mottos on The Wall, plant signs above or below it, etc. And make it part of their political activism.
The primary purpose of US servicemen and women as been to safeguard Freedom, including the freedom of these people to protest lawfully. But that does not mean they can drag the Memorial to our fallen into their political activism. The Memorial is like the symbolic gravestone of our comrades, big, black, somber.
It is NOT about politics, it is about honoring their sacrifice.
It is NOT about whether this nation should not have gone to Viet Nam, or should have stayed longer and done more.
It is NOT about the personalities and controversies of those days, or any other days.
Everyone should understand that the remembrance and honor we give to those who didn’t come back is about THEM, and nothing else. If my brother or my son was in the antiwar movement, I would respect his convictions and support his right to protest, but I would tell him "Leave The Wall out of it. Don’t go there, don’t even think of going there."
And if the same person was rabidly supportive of our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and wanted to paste a poster across The Wall saying "Support The Troops", I would say the same thing. Leave The Wall out of it.
To that end, I hope that by twos and threes, by sixes and tens, vets will take the time, make the trip, and the trickle of men will swell gradually on the day before, to a slowly gathering host. And on that day there will be enough of us there to fill the space along The Wall shoulder to shoulder, six men deep, and around the statues too, so that we can stand there, quiet, peaceful, dignified, and totally determined that no one, NO ONE comes to touch The Wall with poster or paint or flag or emblem or anything else. The protesters will be able to walk past us, but not through us.
Let the cameras roll, let the TV screens in this country and best of all, in the camps of our soldiers across the world, show everyone that some things are indeed sacred, to be respected and guarded, and that the bond exists to bring old vets together to stand sentry once again over the
place dedicated to their brothers.R J Del Vecchio
1st MarDiv, 1968
Please, if your going to be anywhere near DC that day, or maybe planning a trip back east, consider making it coincide with the 17th. A wall of bodies 6 men deep will protect that wall from the scum of the left.
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I would love to go but would be awful hard not to stomp some of them into greasy spots, so you know who would end up in jail. I’ll check back to see how it’s going. Parking and motel recommendations would help.
Tom
Thanks for helping spread the word, Curt. When I forwarded that mail from Del I forgot to mention that I’d added it to my A Gathering Of Eagles post. I can’t put into words how much it means to the older vets like me to see the younger crowd showing some respect for The Wall in spite of all the lies about Nam you grew up hearing.