LGBT Veterans
Monument
Vandalized in National Cemetery |
Once again
in America, lunatics and losers seem to think
that they have gotten permission from certain
political leaders to beat up, run down, and kill
minorities, and desecrate our sacred sites.
These deranged cockroaches crawl out of their
caves and attack, often mistakenly, minority
Americans; and places of worship different from
their own. Both mosques and synagogues
have been defaced and damaged, and those who
worship in them have been violently attacked and
murdered. And yet, certain leaders
continue to rant publicly against 'foreigners,'
and those of us that they consider less worthy
than themselves to walk the Earth and live in
freedom and liberty in our nation in which those
virtues are sacred.
In late
June, in the middle of the night at the Abraham
Lincoln National Cemetery in Chicago, the
recently installed LGBT Veterans Monument was
vandalized with roofing tar and a crude drawing.
A granite pink triangle and recessed carved
lettering were covered up and damaged. The
national cemetery staff made immediate cleanup
efforts and the monument maker is assessing more
permanent repairs.
According
to AVER past president Danny Ingram, "The
American Veterans for Equal Rights monument
located in the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
in Chicago has been desecrated. Clearly there
are Americans who think it is admirable to
dishonor the service and sacrifice of Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender men and women who
have served and sacrificed to defend our
nation’s freedom. Hate is not a virtue.
Vandalism is not a courageous act. Violence
against anyone is inexcusable. And the blatant
and direct labeling of any person or group of
people as “not even human” is the symptom of a
divisive disease that eats away at the
foundations of this great nation and makes us
deeply vulnerable to the attacks of those who
wish to destroy our democratic way of life and
our efforts to expand the values of freedom to
oppressed people worldwide. This must stop.
America’s enemies contribute to and take great
joy in our attacks on each other. If there is
any group of patriots over which the American
people can come together it is those individuals
who volunteer to defend our freedom in the
United States Armed Forces. An attack on any
veteran must be seen as an attack on the things
which we value most: service, honor, duty. Shame
on these cowards. You are completely unworthy of
the sacrifices made to defend your right to free
speech. You desecrate our nation's sacred
honor."