This just strikes me as goofy.
The Pentagon will hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of 9/11, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an unusual announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing yesterday.
“This year the Department of Defense will initiate an America Supports You Freedom Walk,” Rumsfeld said, adding that the march would remind people of “the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation.”
The march will start at the Pentagon, where nearly 200 people died on 9/11, and end at the National Mall with a show by country star Clint Black.
Okay, when I read the official announcement on it, it’s a scosh less goofy. A scosh.
The Defense Department today announced the first “America Supports You Freedom Walk” to honor the victims of 9/11 and America’s military personnel, as well as to celebrate freedom.
The Freedom Walk will begin at 10 a.m. Sept. 11 in the Pentagon South parking lot, near the site where the airliner crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. The walk route will consist of a two-mile trek through Arlington National Cemetery, over the Potomac River, and will end by the reflecting pool on the National Mall, where a free concert featuring country music star Clint Black will take place.
As the DoD and the Pentagon were actual targets of 9/11, a commemorative walk or ceremony at that location is, in fact, appropriate.
On the other hand …
“America Supports You” is a nationwide program launched by the Defense Department with the goal of highlighting how Americans across the country are supporting the men and women of the armed forces.
Um … when the Armed Forces put on a public rally to show how the public is supporting the Armed Forces … that’s goofy.
(via SEB)
Hmmm…
I guess that the only thing that it is missing is someones tomb to use as a reviewing stand.