Welcome to Grim Yelp Reviews, a regular feature where we share people’s worst experiences at the worst places. This week: angrily one-starring our nation’s most beloved national treasures because they’re, like, smaller than you thought they’d be.
It’s summer, and that means, inevitably, a miserably educational outing as a family. Pile everyone into the car and drag them to look at a pile of something in the middle of a field! It’s history!
History, by its nature, is a grim business, but not nearly as grim as online reviews of goods and services. When the two meet on the contentious field of American history, it’s … really something.
Usually, to protect the names of the innocent and not-so-innocent alike, we redact the names of the businesses, as well as the identities of the Yelpers who wrote the reviews. We didn’t do that with the national monuments, for obvious reasons. Mostly because it’s funnier if we present these reviews grouped by the monument they’re complaining about. Hang on tight, America, we’re goin’ in.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The theme that the Vietnam memorial is not sufficiently bitchin’ is repeated several times:
I went to see the Vietnam memorial and was shocked. It was off the beaten path in a pit. This black wall was filled with names of our young men, who died for this country and there were no fountains, waterfalls, eagles, flags or any signs of patriotism. After passing the WWII memorial, I was truly appalled, were their lives any less valuable? Do they deserve less respect?
To memorialize our Veterans on this plain L shaped black wall in a pit is an abomination and complete disgrace. Why bother, really.
Why bother seeing anything in real life, that’s what I always say:
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