woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
So I don't really get it?
What's so hard to get? The memorial represents a nation's sorrow, both for the sacrifice of the person entombed as he rests honored for himself and others, and for all the relations to those that have perished. Nothing wrong with laughter/lightheartedness, but it's just not a place to express it. Laughter could also be interfering with someone that goes there to seek solace. People laugh at funerals, but not generally when someone is weeping. I believe the word is reverence. You want to laugh, move back 100 feet, it's simply being respectful within the certain atmosphere desired to exist, as the man assigned to guard to keep it that way had to inform.