Vandals target Korean War Memorial(at PENN'S LANDING)
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Vandals target Korean War Memorial Katherine Scott PENN'S LANDING - December 11, 2011 (WPVI) -- For the third December in a row, custodian James Moran says he's picking up the pieces by the war memorials at Penn's Landing. This afternoon he called police after discovering five wreaths destroyed. They were placed by the Korean War Memorial on Veterans Day. "We have young men and women dying in Afghanistan and Iraq for our flag; it's a disgrace this goes on every single year," Moran said. More: See more Action News slideshows Moran says flowers were torn off or stolen. Moran found...
Published on Wednesday 8th of February 2012 03:47:12 AM
Obama Administration Opposes FDR Prayer at WWII Memorial
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Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are expressing outrage after the Obama administration announced its objection to adding President Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The objection was noted during a congressional hearing on Rep. Bill Johnson's, R-Ohio, bill -- the "World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2011." "It is unconscionable that the Obama administration would stand in the way of honoring our nation's distinguished World War II veterans," Johnson said. "President Roosevelt's prayer gave solace, comfort and strength to our nation and our brave warriors as we fought against tyranny and oppression."
Published on Wednesday 8th of February 2012 03:47:12 AM
Obama Administration Opposes Adding FDR Prayer To War Memorial
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The Obama administration is opposing legislation that would add President Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. At a House hearing Thursday, Robert Abbey, director of the Bureau of Land Management, said a plaque or inscription of the prayer that Roosevelt read on a radio broadcast to the nation on June 6, 1944, would "dilute" the memorial's central message....
Published on Wednesday 8th of February 2012 03:47:12 AM
Arab ‘Price Tag’ Met with Silence
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A makeshift memorial to a young father and son murdered by Palestinian Authority terrorists was defaced overnight. The memorial was covered with Arabic writing, and with a picture of a terrorist recently set free in the Shalit deal. Israeli media outlets which have given significant coverage to recent Jewish “price tag” activity, particularly a terror orphan’s vandalism of the Rabin memorial, failed to even report the incident. The desecration of the memorial to Asher and Yonatan Palmer “fits in very well with the enemy’s victory celebrations and boasting, fed by Israel’s collapse [in the Shalit deal],” said the grassroots Judea...
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Obama says 'our work is not done' at King memorial dedication
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during the dedication of a monument to the Civil Rights leader in Washington, D.C., today, and linked his struggles to the nation's current economic crisis, saying "our work is not done." Obama evoked "a decade of rising inequality and stagnant wages" before the 2008 financial crisis as well as "neighborhoods with underfunded schools and broken down slums, inadequate health care and constant violence." "Our work is not done," the president said, but added that "the hardships that we face are nothing compared to what Dr. King and...
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Flt 93 mom on Crescent jury: “I don’t want to reach out to those people! They murdered my daughter!”
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Alec Rawls, who has been working with Tom Burnett Sr. to stop the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93, explains the circumstances (related by Mr. Burnett in 2008, but not published until now). Mr. Burnett had been telling his fellow design competition jurors that the crescent is a well known Islamic symbol. In addition to the giant central crescent (now called a broken circle) Tom also objected to the minaret-like Tower of Voices. "I made a point at that meeting," says Mr. Burnett, "to tell people that we have an Islamist design here that can't go forward, please, stay...
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Debate over Tempered by Memory sculpture set aside to reflect on the 10th anniversary of 9/11
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GANSEVOORT — There’s been a great deal of debate about the ideal location for Tempered by Memory, the 25-foot-tall sculpture made from World Trade Center steel. Some feel the sculpture should be placed on the lawn of the Saratoga Springs Visitor Center, others at the Lake Avenue firehouse, and others think it doesn’t belong in Saratoga Springs at all. For one day, however, the debate stopped. Saratoga Arts held a private ceremony in Gansevoort Sunday to recognize the efforts of volunteers and donors who made the sculpture possible. Those honored included sculptors John Van Alstine and Noah Savett, local iron...
Published on Wednesday 8th of February 2012 03:47:12 AM
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