Lincoln Memorial

You know, they're coming from a good place of trying to change things.

And that doesn't necessarily mean it was right, but I don't think it means that the only kind of lens into that world you've seen as film results and misery and death and pain and all these things you know and then Forrest has no voice at all right which I find really strange and they take it away from him at the points where he tries to employ it so the scene I was just thinking that yeah the thing is with Abby Hoffman at the Lincoln Memorial at the Vietnam War protest when the microphone cuts out is in and of itself as I've seen is quite a funny little vignette But again, it's quite telling about the politics of the film.

It doesn't want to hear from Vietnam veterans.

And again, not every Vietnam veteran's story is the same, right? But if you've seen documentaries about the Vietnam War, you can see some of the guys that actually did what Forrest does in that film, where he goes and takes his medals and often they throw the medals away.

find it a bit gross.

And I recognise myself in it, but when I was 17 or 18, do you know what I mean? Not a full-grown adult.

Even, like, the way he clambers down off the stage at the Lincoln Memorial and into the reflecting pool.

Like, it's just all a bit performative and silly.

But in a new court filing Saturday, Virginia and D.C. called the plan illegal since the administration does not have approval from Congress and that the arch would be nearly double the city's height limit.

A group of Vietnam War veterans have also sued, saying the arch would disrupt the sight lines between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House.

President Trump has said he wants the arch both as a memorial and a military complex to store drones and station snipers.

Stephen Bisaha, NPR News, Birmingham, Alabama.

I mean, it's really reminiscent of the Hitler victory arch in size and scale.

It will cast a shadow, literally, a Trump shadow on the Vietnam War Memorial, loom over the Lincoln Memorial, a temple, as is described in the words above Lincoln's head in there, where we remember the man who saved the Union.

And this shadow will fall, this disgraceful shadow on the wall, on the soldier statue, on the graves at Arlington.

It's unacceptable.

I don't know how much there is to do with College Park.

I know it's close to D.C. Like, oh, we can go see the Lincoln Memorial.

You can't fill Capital One Stadium or whatever it's called now because there's so much you can do.

You can go see the Lincoln Memorial.

You

can go see the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

And alongside that, we have a similar story about the Leinster House reflecting pool.

Some parallels been drawn here with Trump and his very expensive reflecting pool, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

And we have this in Leinster House where, again, we have the OPW talking about the requirement to restore a pool.

And I think a lot of people, again, will be thinking back to the story about the bike shed, which, again, was a serious, I think, challenge.

And alongside that, we have a similar story about the Leinster House reflecting pool.

Some parallels been drawn here with Trump and his very expensive reflecting pool, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

And we have this in Leinster House where, again, we have the OPW talking about the requirement to restore a pool.

And I think a lot of people, again, will be thinking back to the story about the bike shed, which, again, was a serious, I think, challenge.

I mean, it's really reminiscent of the Hitler victory arch in size and scale.

It will cast a shadow, literally, a Trump shadow on the Vietnam War Memorial, loom over the Lincoln Memorial, a temple, as is described in the words above Lincoln's head in there, where we remember the man who saved the Union.

And this shadow will fall, this disgraceful shadow on the wall, on the soldier statue, on the graves at Arlington.

It's unacceptable.

Some of them have been there for a while.

Then, of course, the monuments like the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial.

Yeah, but shouldn't we be tearing them down according to the left?

It should be, but, you know.