their day here at the world war ii memorial are up 17th street outside the white house. they are basically making everyone in dc who willisen or who is just will listen or just passing by know how upset they are how veterans have been treated during the government shutdown. everything started out this morning. predawn the crowd was gathering. before the speeches and the chants and the songs started this morning we did see the organizers lead a charge tearing down, breaking apart and then taking down the metal barricades that surrounded the entire world war ii memorial. they then laid them in a heap over on a grassy area just to the side of the memorial and that allowed several hundred people to go into the world war ii memorial which is technically closed. the police did not the police were not really having a huge presence here this morning. they let everybody right in. we saw in the distance a similar scene on the steps of the lincoln memorial this