# What do you think of this guy's house? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992 "2014-09-30T18:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/1 "2014-09-30T18:35:54Z")
I pass [this house](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8329779,-96.624948,3a,75y,265.45h,80.54t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sQGux2OD4cckiFtdIPpArFQ!2e0?hl=en) on a regular basis. On the one hand I admire the guy for keeping alive the memory of his fallen comrades. Then evil cynical me says, “Welcome home Viet Nam Vets??? They came home 40 years ago- get over it!” I know “getting over it” is easier sad than done, and I wasn’t the guy over there. I guess making his house a shrine is a coping mechanism, and as such is a benign one. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/2 "2014-09-30T18:39:42Z")
Warning: Contains nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/3 "2014-09-30T18:54:15Z")
I wouldn’t do it, but it’s relatively inoffensive. It wouldn’t bother me if he was in my neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/4 "2014-09-30T19:11:58Z")
According to [this article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue) there are 1,643 servicemen who remain MIA. Every once in a while you hear about some remains being found/returned. Maybe that’s his issue. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/5 "2014-09-30T19:40:16Z")
The house is kind of cool, but I’d lose the sign. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/6 "2014-09-30T19:44:26Z")
What’s it say on the tombstone? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/7 "2014-09-30T19:47:44Z")
Also, he could use a few more American flags. Any number short of 2 dozen is downright unpatriotic! ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/8 "2014-09-30T19:48:37Z")
Love the neighborhood makes me want to leave Los Angeles ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/9 "2014-09-30T20:03:58Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What’s it say on the tombstone? If you zoom in, you can kind of read it. I got ‘Vietnam Veteran’ (in red) ‘2 something Combat Eng. Bat.’ ‘1965 - 1967’ or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/10 "2014-10-01T00:49:36Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > If you zoom in, you can kind of read it. I got ‘Vietnam Veteran’ (in red) ‘2 something Combat Eng. Bat.’ ‘1965 - 1967’ or something like that. Wow. I was just about to say there’s now way you can zoom in on that, but now I see in new Google Maps that there’s a zoom button in the bottom right corner. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/11 "2014-10-01T03:08:35Z")
It could use a coat of paint. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/12 "2014-10-01T03:16:56Z")
Personally I’m thinking I’d stay the fuck off his lawn.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/13 "2014-10-01T04:44:08Z")
Another old guy stuck in time. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/14 "2014-10-01T07:31:46Z")
Eh. Needs more flags. A few blocks from my last house the homeowner plastered his fence and his house with “Abortion is Murder” signs. Unsightly, yes. But I stopped even noticing it after the first few times; it just became part of the landscape. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/15 "2014-10-01T07:35:57Z")
I always figured every house in Nebraska looked like that. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/16 "2014-10-01T07:38:09Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Love the neighborhood makes me want to leave Los Angeles Or maybe just Torrance? (There are lots of neighborhoods in L.A. County that look a lot like that picture.) But, yeah, I know what you mean. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/17 "2014-10-02T04:05:15Z")
There was an old guy driving some huge Detroit monstrosity plated “B-17 Drvr” around the local airport 30 or so years ago. Another “get over it”. If it was B-29. maybe. B-17? That’s like “my other car is a crapped out Chevy” ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-guys-house/699992/18 "2014-10-02T15:48:33Z")
This is a more modest display but has been here for at least 15 years: [Google Maps](http://goo.gl/maps/CgMGo) The homeowner is an Iwo Jima vet, and obviously it still affects him almost 70 years later. Real nice guy. Drives a Honda.