The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. has been vandalized with bubbles filling a fountain and graffiti reading ‘Clean hands dirty $’ in red paint.
Investigation Underway
The U.S. Park Police are investigating the incident, which occurred on Thursday. The Interior Department has stated that they will find the person responsible for this act of vandalism.
The Friends of the National World War II Memorial, a nonprofit organization that helps maintain the site, condemned the vandalism, saying that a national memorial honoring those who served and sacrificed should never be used as a canvas for vandalism.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars also denounced the act, calling it ‘an act of profound disrespect, a slap in the face to the veterans who served and sacrificed and to the families who carried that burden at home.’
President Donald Trump expressed his outrage over the vandalism on his Truth Social site, saying that ‘our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by Spray Painting Vandals’ and that ‘THERE CAN BE NO GREATER INSULT TO THOSE AMERICAN HEROES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II.’
Original reporting: WTVQ (Lexington) — read the source article.
