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(Update, Wednesday: After realizing the veterans were going to keep coming, the Park Service figured a legal way around the shutdown rules which let's them through.)

Original: A group of World War II veterans aren't letting a pesky government shutdown stop them from visiting a Washington, D.C. memorial. These are your first, and probably only, bad-ass heroes of the government shutdown.

The government shutdown is stupid: some Republicans want to repeal Obamacare, after the Supreme Court deemed it legal and their losing presidential candidate campaigned to overturn it, and their hopeless fight has shut down the government for the foreseeable future. As a result, all national parks and open air memorials are closed across the country. One of the more depressing casualties of the shutdown: a group of 91 veterans who travelled on an Honor Flight from Mississippi might be locked out from a scheduled memorial visit Tuesday morning.

The chance that they might miss out on their visit because of political gridlock was sad, depressing news. "It actually requires more effort and expense to shut out these veterans from their memorial than it would to simply let them through," Rep. Steven Palazzo conceded on Monday.