Warped STANDARD

Mob Museum overshadows U.S. Veterans and clearly shows the difference between a city and a town

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LAS VEGAS - Following World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraq, tens of thousands of veterans chose Las Vegas as their new home town. Today, our metro area houses two million people and has one of the highest concentrations of war veterans in the United States. However, there is nothing here to commemorate their heroic sacrifices, while there is a wondrous effort being directed toward opening a museum to commemorate the horrific actions of a bunch of local mobsters. For more than two years, representatives of Las Vegas’ fallen war heroes have found it necessary to beg city and federal officials in vane for $800,000 to reopen a closed down city park so it can be devoted to the memory of those who lost their lives fighting for our freedoms—freedoms that will soon include using government facilities to glorify criminals. But city leaders, especially Mayor Oscar Goodman, have set a goal that does not include war heroes. The casinos and private citizens have opened their checkbooks and donated over $45 million dollars to convert an old federal court house and post office into a museum to honor the mob, and this is causing a great deal of anger among those more deserving of our town’s gratitude. In contrast to Las Vegas’ latest priority, even the smallest cities in America routinely build memorials to honor their local war veterans (see above photo of a Veteran’s Memorial in Wasilla, Alaska - a sophisticated small city of 9,000).

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