Submit your comments at: https://savingplaces.org/monumental-arch
Yet another example of El puta pendejo‘s ego run amok. No matter how you spin it, this is a monument, aka Arc de Trump, to the insatiable hole that is the tRump’s ego. I had no idea that it would have such a drastic and negative effect on what the National Park Service is calling the viewscape. However, it right in line with his defacement of the White House and his attempt to plaster the obscenity that is his name all over Washington, D.C. I see it as slap in the face to all veterans buried at Arlington and to Lincoln as the 250 foot tall Arc with dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and the entrance to the Arlington Cemetery.
And what a horrible waste of tax money when he the Republican party are doing their best to take away health care and social program from millions of Americans. Does his hubris, his cruelty have no bounds?
If you have been to Washington, D.C. you will know that this space is perfect the way it is.
The Romans used to march defeated armies through their arc in Rome. I suppose Cadet Bone Spur needs a place to march the defeated Iranian army through.
May Isis save us all.
From the National Park Service website:
National Park Service is accepting public comments on this project until June 15, 11:59PM MT. Learn more below and on nps.gov.
If you submitted comments to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) or Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), please submit again to NPS. This is a new comment period for a separate government entity.
Members of the public have the opportunity to provide input on a proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, near Arlington National Cemetery and along the Potomac River.
The location of the proposed Arch will interrupt the highly significant relationship between the Lincoln Memorial, across Arlington Memorial Bridge, to Arlington National Cemetery and Arlington House. One of the most symbolic landscapes in Washington, D.C., the vista was designed to represent the post-Civil War reconciliation of the north and south of the United States.
It is because this viewshed carries so much meaning to the country that the National Trust has raised concerns about the proposed Monumental Arch, whose scale, location, and design will disrupt this important visual and symbolic vista. In addition, the Arch will dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and disrupt the long, open, and uninterrupted viewsheds, overwhelming the entry to Arlington National Cemetery—the hallowed resting place of 400,000 veterans and their families and a powerful reminder of American military sacrifice, selfless service, and national unity, all within sight of the monumental core of the Nation’s Capital.