Greatest Generation Storms Shutdown Memorial Gates [View all]
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Washington Post @washingtonpost 5m
WWII veterans storm closed WWII memorial, officer for Park Police refuses to enforce closure http://wapo.st/18KKKvJ
At the barricaded World War II Memorial shortly after 11 a.m., a group of World War II veterans from Mississippi, led by members of Congress, entered the memorial despite the shutdown.
The veterans were part of an honor flight program. They had chartered an $80,000 airplane, and their plans were too far advanced to postpone, said Wayne Lennep, spokesman for the Mississippi Gulf Coast honor flights . . .
“I’m not going to enforce the no stopping or standing sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans,” said the officer, who declined to give his name. “I’m a veteran myself. ”
Veterans piled off the buses in wheelchairs and with canes, and a shout went up when the barricades blocking the entrance to the memorial were suddenly moved and the men surged down into the memorial.
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Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller 5m
RT @LeoShane: Iowa vets (yellow shirts) now coming into WWII memorial with congressional security guard. #shutdown pic.twitter.com/BsVYXBcGQt
Washington Post @washingtonpost 1m
Officer at memorial: "I'm not going to enforce the no stopping or standing...for a group of 90 World War II veterans" http://wapo.st/151cfzL
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