What manner of people are we that we allow trash to pile up at our monuments?
Is this how Americans act? Is this how we want people to perceive us?
Are we lazy? Are we slobs? Have we lost the will to do something for ourselves — just because it is the right thing to do?? If the image from WUSA9 is accurate, it appears we ARE a people who care nothing for our nation and, by extension, ourselves.
THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL RANT.
It makes no difference if you are concerned with national security or if you simply are angry because your party lost the White House. I don’t care if you hate the president or the leaders of the Democrat party.
As the old expression goes: If you are not part of the solution, (then) you are part of the problem.
People who litter are pigs. Period.
When I traveled with my children around the country, we had trash bags in the car to put refuge — food wrappers, tissues, empty bottles and cups, etc. When we got to a rest stop or when we stopped to add fuel, the trash bag would be placed in a receptacle designed for trash.
We did not turn the roadside into a dump.
True, people are employed to “police the grounds” at monuments and other sites.
Also true that those people are suffering an enforced layoff thanks to our politicians. (Perhaps they should be called “polluticians.”)
Trash strewn around not only is unsightly, but it invites illness.
We cannot depend on visitors to our country to pick up after themselves if we are such bad examples.
The trash we choose to ignore tells the world the type people who live here.
I am embarrassed.
Walt Kelly’s Pogo was right.
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
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