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TuxedoKat

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22. Agreed

Reply to Science Trumps All (Reply #13)

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 01:07 PM

Mar 2012

There are getting to be too many memorials on the mall. Four acres seems excessive too. Not that Pres. Eisenhower doesn't deserve one somewhere, but so do some other presidents, perhaps more than Ike. What about Pres. Truman?

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Eisenhower family on memorial: Go back to the drawing board [View all] alp227 Mar 2012 OP

MLK JR got one made in China lol, maybe Ikes can be made in Germany? nt msongs Mar 2012 #1

The WW2 Memorial looks like Hitler's inner circle designed it. MADem Mar 2012 #2

Thank you! LibertyLover Mar 2012 #4

I know an old lady who thinks the worst--and she has a THEORY! MADem Mar 2012 #11

The WW II Memorial and the MLK statute are the two uglist things on the Mall. former9thward Mar 2012 #7

+1!!! nt MADem Mar 2012 #8

"...design created by architect Frank Gehry." TheManInTheMac Mar 2012 #3

Ha! earthside Mar 2012 #5

Just a way to remind us how "great" the country is... rwsanders Mar 2012 #14

I think Ike with death rays would be pretty cool. Snake Alchemist Mar 2012 #10

It is pretty bad. earthside Mar 2012 #6

I think Ike with death rays would be pretty cool. Snake Alchemist Mar 2012 #9

I like the trees, I hate the scale. MADem Mar 2012 #12

I don't see the problem naaman fletcher Mar 2012 #16

So you disagreed with the King Family influencing the changes to the MLK memorial? 24601 Mar 2012 #17

yes naaman fletcher Mar 2012 #21

"just how crowded is the mall going to get?" Watch out, soon there will be a * memorial wordpix Mar 2012 #18

Memorials overdone Science Trumps All Mar 2012 #13

All the heroes are such a mixed bag aren't they lunatica Mar 2012 #15

"We don't need to tear up the Mall" I agree, but the Mall IS torn up now, literally wordpix Mar 2012 #19

Good post. woo me with science Mar 2012 #20

Agreed TuxedoKat Mar 2012 #22