{"id":1640251,"date":"2022-09-13T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640251"},"modified":"2022-09-13T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:21:27","slug":"anti-war-vandals-deface-9-11-memorial-at-michigan-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-war-vandals-deface-9-11-memorial-at-michigan-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-War Vandals Deface 9\/11 Memorial at Michigan State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanti-war-vandals-deface-9-11-memorial-at-michigan-state-university%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Anti-war vandals defaced a 9\/11 memorial at Michigan State University for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s Young Americans for Freedom chapter on Sunday assembled the memorial, which featured the words &#8220;Never Forget&#8221; and was surrounded by 2,977 American flags to commemorate the number of people killed in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. By Tuesday morning, vandals painted &#8220;bloody&#8221; handprints on the memorial, along with the phrase &#8220;461,000 Iraqi civilians,&#8221; an apparent reference to Iraq war casualties. Just last year, vandals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\/news\/9-11-memorial-vandalized-at-michigan-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">erased<\/a>\u00a0the &#8220;Never&#8221; in &#8220;Never Forget&#8221; on the Young Americans for Freedom memorial at Michigan State, and spray-painted &#8220;Israel&#8221; over an American flag.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, Young Americans for Freedom has constructed memorials on high school and college campuses as part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\/news\/yafs-9-11-never-forget-project-to-unite-americans-on-19th-anniversary-of-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9\/11: Never Forget Project<\/a>. A spokeswoman for the group says 20 of their memorials have been vandalized since the project began in 2003. In 2021 a student leader at Washington University in St. Louis discarded <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/washington-university-student-desecrates-memorial-to-9-11-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the American flags<\/a> from an identical memorial, which he called &#8220;insidious&#8221; and &#8220;a political prop upholding American hegemony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State Young Americans for Freedom chapter president Jaryn Crouson told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that such vandalism shows why the memorials matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are many people who don\u2019t think this event should be remembered or don\u2019t see the significance of it,&#8221; Crouson said. &#8220;That\u2019s why we do what we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After vandals defaced the memorial, the university directed landscapers to discard the flags surrounding it, saying the memorial had been &#8220;abandoned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1636218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Discarded flags from YAF&#8217;s memorial (Young America&#8217;s Foundation).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that the university felt 48 hours was too long to display a 9\/11 memorial is appalling,&#8221; Crouson added.<\/p>\n<p>A Michigan State University spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. The university\u2019s student government also did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Young Americans for Freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bc747VAbDVA&amp;ab_channel=YoungAmerica%27sFoundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed<\/a> students at George Mason University this month to gauge their knowledge of the 9\/11 attacks. Many had not heard of al-Qaeda, and did not know the Islamic extremist group had coordinated the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-war vandals defaced a 9\/11 memorial at Michigan State University for the second year in a row. 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