For those who don't know, veterans had been allowed to visit the WWII monuments since October 2nd, the day after the shutdown. The monuments were only closed to the general public.
It's not quite word salad. Every word has an alternate meaning to conservatives that we just haven't deciphered yet, and the moment we do, they move on to finding out a new one. Sarah Palin Word Salad is the D&D Thieves Cant of modern politics.