Feds: Headstones for veterans' graves plundered to build carport floor

[Bailey Guns]

Reading stories like this makes me wanna go live under a rock to escape this society. Or kill the guy slowly and painfully. Either one.

[CapLock]

I just tuck pointed the VFW off Broadway. After all the breaks and discounts I walked away feeling guilt that I made 600 bucks. If some breaks this mother fuckers legs they can have my 600.

[StagLefty]

Total loss for words !!!

[driver]

His community service should be at the VA while wearing a shirt that says
'I park my truck on the headstones of our fallen.

[sniper7]

I think part of the punishment should be to personally apologize to each of those soldiers families who he stole headstones from and disgraced.

[davsel]

Personally, I am not outraged.
These were stones that were worn out and replaced by new stones. Once they are removed and replaced at the cemetery, to me, they are just old stones that no longer represent anything. The grave itself is important to me, not the stone that once marked where it is.

From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061605411.html

Headstones are replaced if they are damaged or if the writing on them becomes illegible, she said. At one time, gravestones were discarded in landfills. The cemetery ended that practice because Washington area residents were plucking the stones and using them for patios, driveways and other home improvement projects. Under the current disposal policy, headstones are to be ground up so the names cannot be recognized and then recycled.

I would not have a problem if one day my worn out and replaced headstone was used by someone for a useful purpose.
Now they are ground up and possibly turned into tiles for a bathroom floor, who knows.

I would like to see them offered to next-of-kin before being destroyed.

Stealing or vandalizing stones from atop graves is a different matter. Shoot the bastards.

Interesting video about where military headstones come from:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-ma...es-headstones/

[Hound]

Words..... There are none.

[rondog]

Words..... There are none.

Ditto. Nothing PC anyway.....