UNBELIEVABLE: Obama closes Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial over shutdown

This is unbelievable. Not only has Obama tried to keep World War II veterans from paying their respects at the WWII Memorial, but now he’s closed the military cemetery in Normandy and tourists are being turned away. I really just don’t have the words right now:

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NEW YORK POST — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government’s partial shutdown.

The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.

The cemeteries are maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, set up after the First World War. Nearly 125,000 U.S. servicemen and women are buried at its cemeteries, and an additional 94,000 are commemorated on tablets of the missing.


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