Obama on Memorial Day

7/31/2019 Obama on Memorial Day

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On Memorial Day, the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. is supposed

to look like this:

Instead, for seven long hours, it looked like this:

Obamas Secret Service shut down the memorial for most of

the day as families and veterans who had come to pay their


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respects to fallen loved ones were forced to stay hundreds of

feet away.

Why? So that the Narcissist-in-Chief could show up for 15-

minute speech and photo-op with his carefully selected fans in

the audience.

In his remarks, Obama made sure to mention that:

As long as Im president, we will make sure you and your loved

ones will receive the benefits youve earned and the respect you

deserve, Obama said. America will be there for you.

Wow. How did our veterans ever get their benefits before the

benevolent Obamessiah came to office? Is that his argument

for why they should vote for him? Because their benefits are

only available as long as Im president? Perhaps hes hoping

theyll forget that he suspended hazard pay for deployed U.S.
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troops, terminated 157 Air Force Majors without retirement

benefits, and proposed a budget that would cut healthcare

benefits for active duty and retired US military while

protecting union benefits.

Brian Trubee left this comment on Weasel Zippers:

I just received this e-mail from a brother in arms who I served

with as a USAF pararecueman. A link to his e-mail is at the

bottom of the message. I deleted the photos because the server

rejected them. - Brian Trubee, Redmond, Washington.:

I am currently in Washington DC and witnessed the following. Isaw this first hand and I bet you wont hear about this from the

Liberal media
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Vietnam veterans and the families of Vietnam veterans killed in

action whose names are etched on the Wall were denied access to

their memorial today, of all days, Memorial Day. The Vietnam

Memorial was shutdown, cleared and secured for approximately 5

hours prior to Obama, his cronies and hand picked veterans for a15 minute appearance by Obama. Its obvious it was all for show.

After all, this is an election year.

Hundreds if not thousands of Vietnam veterans and families of

Vietnam veterans killed in Vietnam stood in disbelief as Secret

Service, Park Police, Washington, DC Police, etc., blocked all

access to the Vietnam Memorial and kept everyone approximately100 yards away from their memorial for the first time in the

history of the Memorial so Obama could get some photos of him at

the Wall. Veterans in uniforms stood in the heat angered as

Obama makes them wait. It was a photo op at their expense and

families of those killed in Vietnam.

As I stated, I was there and witnessed all of this. Many veteransand others flipped Obama the finger as his motorcade drove past.

I didnt honor him with a finger salute because I was busy holding

up my 3x5 Dont Tread on Me Flag as his motorcade drove past.

On another note, I was able to dedicate some port-o potties to Jane

Fonda. Pictures attached. Maybe Obama should share this honor

with Jane Fonda henceforth.

- Jim Morris


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Kristinn at Free Republic confirms the story:

So this is how Obozo honors those who served I just had this

passed on from a friend who was at the wall this morning:

I normally try to avoid political statements, but this one is a bit

different. This was received by Colonel Wayne Morris just a few

moments ago, who was refused access to the Vietnam War

Memorial, where he has visited his fallen comrades for the last 15

years.

Today is Memorial Day and I went to the Vietnam Memorial and

something happened there that upset me greatly and I want to

pass it on.

For over 15 years I had been going with my dear Marine buddy,

Larry Cullen. Since he passed away last year and was interned at

Arlington Cemetery, I went this year accompanied by mygrandson, Cameron. I had my list of Recon Marines, school

classmates, and Larrys fallen buddies to visit but, as we got close

to the area of the National Mall where the Wall is located, we saw

huge white tents. We also saw barricades all along Constitution

Ave and for a couple blocks in each direction from the Wall. They

even closed down all of Constitution Av from the Lincoln

Memorial all the way to the WW-II Memorial and there was a

virtual army of uniformed and plain-clothes security everywhere.

The biggest tent was right at the west end of the Wall entrance and

there was a covered walkway leading right up to The Wall. It was

so close, you couldnt get to the Wall on that side so, my grandson
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and I went all the way around to the eastern entrance to the Wall

and walked down along the Wall to the first of my names and I

began telling my grandson about my buddies and how each one

died. In short order, a guy in a dark suit and earpiece in his ear

told us we had to leave as it was 0730 and they were closingMemorial until at least 1400 so the President could drop by. I

asked if he was serious and he assured me he was. We and all the

other veterans and families were forced to leave and it was locked

down.

The Vietnam Memorial is the most visited site on the entire

National Mall. Memorial Day has more visitors to the VietnamMemorial than almost any other day.Even at the rather early

hour Cameron and I were there, there were a lot of veterans and

family members down there. In the midst of all that, Obama

decides to close it for over seven hours just so he can roll by for 30

minutes in the afternoon for a campaign appearance with

Democrats, supporters, and campaign donors?This is an

incredulously arrogant, egotistical, and inconsiderate thing to do.

What in hell was Obama thinking?

Hey President Obama: Since you ran me (and all the other

veterans and family members) out of the Memorial before we

finished our business there, how about doing me a favor. If you

can take a short break from all the grippin, grinnin, posin and

pontificatin, how about taking a minute or two to stop by and say

hello to my fellow Recon Marines and other classmates on theWall. I suspect youll be too busy with photo ops, campaigning,

and stroking donors to be troubled with a couple minutes doing

what the Memorial was built for but, just in case, heres a list so

you can have your man find them and point them out to you. Hope

you have a Meaningful Memorial Day.


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Joseph J. JONES; 53-W-02

Sherwood David Kreis, 42-W-40

Dale Kagebein, 34-W-50Jerry Bock, 25-W-95

Larry Daniels, 09-E- 66

Joe Mack Kemp, 09-E-69

Rhonda L. Raglan, 09-E-70

Robert L. Studards, 09-E-71

Jose D. Flores, 09-E-74

Arthur Willie Greene, 14-E-56

Eric Barnes, 17-E-41

Godfried Blankenship, 17-E-48

Michael Ray Smith, 19-E-113

Ervin Lovell, 19-E-120

William D. Martin, 25-E- 87

Michael L. Laporte, 26-E-1

Ronald Frederick Kitzke, 32-E-76

Charles Harris, 34-E-48

Robert Tracy, 34-E-72

Michael G. Murdock, 36-E-57

Maybe it would have been better for everyone if Obama had

just gone golfing like last year. Unfortunately, this is what

veterans and their families have to suffer when Obama is in

full campaign mode.
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