Flying right over their heads
Writing by treason on Monday, 28 of May , 2007 at 6:21 pm
The three of us – T, me, and the dog — were standing at our local high school in the middle of the grass when four F-16s from Kirtland Air Force Base did a Memorial Day flyover. They seemed to be lower than usual, right over us, and those few seconds were exhilarating. I found myself quoting Ron Silver.
“Those are our planes!”
And they were ours, too – those planes that flew into buildings and gave us a reason to bicker over the design and construction of memorials. I went online to see what’s been going on at Ground Zero. It appears that Swamp White Oak trees are being dug up in Rensselaer County to be transported to Lower Manhattan. When the memorial is complete, visitors will walk through a grove of trees that are commonly found in New York, Pennsylvania, and the D.C. area. I’m certain there will be a plaque that will explain this to them.
There were several news stories this weekend about the progress of the Pentagon Memorial. The company that will design and build it was chosen in August of 2003; dedication is scheduled for fall of next year.
Holy Hannah. A new Wal-Mart goes up in a matter of weeks – once everything gets through the courts. Why are these memorials taking so long? For an answer, you can visit any of the memorial websites and look at the schedules and timelines. This is an agonizing process for everyone involved. So much red tape, so many signatures, so many steps, so many hurdles to clear.
There’s another memorial being built and I’m not sure how many people are aware of it. Thanks to National Review, which has a progress report in its most recent issue, I now know that The Victims of Communism Memorial is, after twelve years, getting closer to its June dedication ceremony. There was an article about it on NRO in December of 2005: at that point, there was hope that the dedication would be in the fall of 2006. Uh, not so fast. These things take time.
The ceremony in the nation’s capital is slated for June 12, and I’d give my left nut – if I had one – to be there. It’s funny – well, not really – how our culture has come to think of the Communist threat as quaint. We shy away from the C-word and use the S-word instead. Socialism just sounds nicer, doesn’t it?
There are those lovely Socialists in Cuba. In the universities. In Venezuela. They’re just being… well, social. And generous, too. Danny Glover got a film project financed by one of them. The one who is claiming, by shutting down a popular TV station and booting 3000 people – artsy types like Glover — out of their jobs, that he is simply “democratizing the airwaves” and giving the network’s signal back to the people.
Which people? The ones that have been protesting and getting gassed in the streets? It is to laugh. Hugo Chavez seizes a network that criticizes him and ours here still refer to him as a “small s” socialist president. Yet our networks have no issues whatsoever referring to George Bush as a fascist. A Nazi. What — did our president pull MSNBC off the air and I just haven’t noticed?
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