Clean Up Squad
As Memorial Day approaches one of the questions
is who will clean up the Vietnam wall at Venice, California. It was
defaced the other day, CBS News reports (Drudge had the story up
immediately). “An awful sight on this Memorial Day weekend” is how it
was described by CBS. An officer of the Venice Chamber of Commerce
called it a “desecration.” The question is: who will clean it up?
Maybe Jane Fonda will volunteer. The movie star supposedly regrets
that, when she went to visit the North Vietnamese while our GIs were
still in combat and some of them were being held as prisoners of war,
she allowed herself to be photographed on enemy anti-aircraft gun. She
relates the story on her official Web site, where she called it one
thing “that I will regret to my dying day.”
Helping to restore the defaced Vietnam veterans memorial might help Miss Fonda feel better about herself — and the veterans, too. Maybe she could get Bill Clinton to pitch in. He spent the war dodging the draft and, at one point, even fetched up in Moscow. He defeated a war hero, Bob Kerrey, in the 1992 Democratic primary in Georgia. But he’s never quite put paid the question of his default during the war....
Read more at the New York Sun
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