Sniper's nest in the Lady Liberty's torch?
That image is perhaps the most stupid image of war I've ever seen.
shareTactically useless but visually memorable. Plus, I don't think people are permitted to even enter the torch anymore, are they?
shareI don't think so. Not sure if they ever were because the whole statue is a metal from covered with copper cladding. The sandbags around outside of the torch would do nothing to protect from someone shooting up from the ground. It's just beyond stupid.
It's like the US military is some respects. For beating up on small powers - very intimidating, but we sank so many trillions of dollars into air-craft carriers and the planes on them, and the destroyers and escorts around them that we cannot even get close to the enemy in the Middle East.
Check this out, it's terrifying:
Military contract price gouging: Defense contractors overcharge Pentagon | 60 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvpqAaJjVU
Plus, I don't think people are permitted to even enter the torch anymore, are they?
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At the cilmax of Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur, made in 1942 as America was entering WWII, hero Robert Cummings chases Nazi villain Norman Lloyd up into that torch and a cliffhanger ensues with the villain literally "hanging by a thread" from the torch.
I wonder if one could really climb to the torch even back THEN...or if they could and it was closed later.
My guess is that "regular people tourists" WERE NOT EVER ALLOWED to climb up into and onto the torch. As Saboteur postulated, its pretty cramped and dangerous up there, exposed to a high drop.
Indeed, the saboteur in Saboteur DOES fall to his death in a great Hitchcock scene...
I was going to say, "Wait, I think that film was set in England, not New York," but then I realized I was thinking of Hitchcock's other film, "Sabotage".
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