Since the Government shutdown took place earlier last week
all federally funded parks, museums, and monuments had been shut down. This
includes the WWII Memorial in Washington D.C. But Government shutdown didn’t stop
over ninety veterans from Mississippi from crossing the barricades to see the
cherished memorial. This is a very hear-warming story and is something
different from what we have been hearing over the last couple of months. But
the spin on this story is that congressmen from the House and Senate were there
to greet the veterans at the memorial. This makes me kind of mad because those
congressmen could be at the House or Senate trying to open back up all of these
monuments and museums so nobody has to break down any barricades to see
something that they have the right to see.
This
all ties back to some of my other blog posts about how central minded these congressmen
are. Instead of trying to be the solution they are being apart of the problem. They
shouldn’t be at the memorials that are shutdown, greeting guests that walk by,
they should be in the Capital Building coming up with a plan to open back up
these monuments. These veterans fought for these rights to see their name in
the memorial. They fought for our freedom and nothing should be able to stop
them from seeing what they successfully fought for. They are the reason that we
are free today and not even a government shutdown should take that away from
them.
Also,
the Statue of Liberty was shutdown obviously because it is a national monument.
Isn’t the Statue of Liberty supposed to show the freedom of our nation as a
whole? With the shutdown, it is kind of taking away that right in some way
shape and form and it’s just not right. So instead of congressmen being there
greeting people, why don’t they actually go and walk the walk, not just talk
the talk.
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