The story of the defacement of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, is making the rounds this morning. Here is a rather good look at the damage.
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The story of the defacement of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, is making the rounds this morning. Here is a rather good look at the damage.
Crossroads 
Oh my! What next? Vandalize St. Patrick’s Cathedral or spray pain the bronzes at the FDR Memorial? I’m sure everyone here recalls the incident some years ago when some of the monuments at Gettysburg were damaged/broken. Stuff like this just shouldn’t happen in this country.
Hopefully they can figure out who did it and find out why.
It’s sad. Would be good to find out who. As to the why, is other cases I’ve seen there’s usually not much of an answer to that. Just a whole bucket of crazy.
The Peace Memorial at Gettysburg has been vandalized in the past. Out of place or not, it is a monument to friggin peace.
I am always amazed where such people find the so-called courage to deface a unmoving national monument that can’t shoot back.
Too bad there weren’t any film students with taser batons riding by.
Longstreet’s grave site was vandalized in 1998. I was there when a man who donated his services did a wonderful job was able to remove the spray paint.
“Hopefully they can figure out who did it and find out why.”
I couldn’t care less as to why the person did it. That implies some kind of mitigating motivation that would lessen the offense – there is none.
Fair enough.
http://www.wtop.com/109/3404543/Green-paint-popping-up-on-historic-icons-across-DC
Not a Neo Confederate evidently
I’m not aware that anyone suggested that it was … although there were some worshippers of the Confederate cause who seemed to take pleasure in the act.