Barricading of the WWII Memorial

Factual Questions
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I’m very much NOT looking for a debate on this. What I’d like to know is:

Did the president or his administration order the barricading of the WWII memorial specifically, while leaving other similar memorials un-barricaded? If so, was there any specific rationale given?

Sadly, the vast majority of the links I can find on the topic are to staunchly right-wing sites and blogs (Daily Caller, Hot Air, etc.), and so I’m disinclined to trust their objectivity. But supposedly-neutral fact-check sites like Politifact and Factcheck haven’t weighed in, as far as I can see.

My sense is that such places were barricaded, because a) due to the shutdown, they couldn’t be staffed as normal, and b) they wanted to discourage at least a surface level of possible vandalism while the places were closed, and the barricades were a relatively inexpensive way of doing that.

Cites from objective sources would be ideal!

Thanks much.

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This is covered in the Great Debates forum of this BBS. All the parks were shut down, because they are non-essential government functions. They were closed for the protection of the park facilities, of the sights and attractions, and also for the protection of visitors.