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These volunteers appearing to be washing the Vietnam War Memorial.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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What they’re doing is something that the left will never understand. They’re honoring those who gave their lives in the uniform of this country.

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I have talked with one of the Watchers who help people find names and supply paper and graphite to do the etching, he says that in all the years he has been serving there he has only seen one bad incident. It was a domestic-type problem, not anti-war.

What is sad is the conversations I have heard there. Young people asking questions and making comments that show a total lack of knowledge about the basic history of our involvement in VN.

For several years I stopped going. I still don’t go when there are crowds. Late night and dawn are my preferred time slots.

I offered to help, they said that was alright. I might have been on some news footage, there were 2 camera crews there for Father’s Day. And as I was leaving I saw a podium and speakers being set up in the meadow on the Wash Mon side. Don’t know what that was about. I don’t stick around DC anymore. I really despise that city.

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