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# Letter: Arlington West volunteer responds to Bill Bauer's column on the memorial
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/bill-bauer-send-comments-to-editor-smdp-com-my-write-come-down-to-arlington-west-bill-editor/
- Published: 2007-06-04T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:57:16.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Kitty Joyner Arlington West volunteer*

(Re: Bill Bauer’s column “Arlington West exploits the dead,” May 28, page 4) As a volunteer at Arlington West I have heard this accusation before; twice from people who entered the memorial screaming and kicking crosses out of the sand. I guess that is one way to show the disrespectful Arlington West volunteers that they’re being disrespectful. So, Bill, thank you for your restraint!

Bill takes many swipes at us, but I cannot help but suspect that he is writing from the safety of his own “Green Zone.” So I would like to invite Bill to actually come down to visit Arlington West some Sunday morning, introduce himself and meet the volunteers. I will personally take him along the sand to some particular crosses bearing mementos from families of the fallen. That is if I’m not too busy proselytizing, politicizing, or being a “manipulative promoter of Arlington West.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 4, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/060407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)