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Headstones for veterans' graves plundered to build carport floor
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Posted on 07/25/2015 6:02:12 PM PDT by pabianice
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Nice guy.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:02:12 PM PDT
by
pabianice
To: pabianice
I’d guess he wasn’t a bitter clinger.
To: Norm Lenhart
He's watching too many programs on the House and Garden network.
Leni
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:07:51 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Boycott Aug thru end Nov:All movie houses,Macys,everything Disney. We'll do 3 others after Nov. 30)
To: pabianice
the creep on our left...is the perp!
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:08:44 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: pabianice
I’d be a little nervous around Halloween if I were him.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:10:48 PM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: pabianice
That’s making a strong bet that there is no God. Like a shoving all the chips into the middle kinda bet.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:13:10 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: MeshugeMikey
Suit, tie, and shirt ensemble of a gangster.
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
He borrowed em from the same guy who loans Revrunt Sharpton his wardrobe...
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:17:22 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: pabianice
My grandmother’s back steps are tombstones. 100+ years ago her house was a funeral home and the undertaker apparently used the screw ups.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:18:05 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: MeshugeMikey
Yeah, no kidding.
No.
Taste.
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I sort of expected he might bea more...Pinheaded looking sort of dope...
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:20:16 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: pabianice
I once worked in V.A. student work study program at a National Cemetery. When a marker was replaced we busted the old one with a sledge hammer and it went in the dumpster. I would not have wanted to been the truck driver picking it up. It was a smaller cemetery not used much because many of the area vets didn't realize they qualified.
My dad as well as my wife are buried in a newer state veterans cemetery. The one they are buried in replaced the national one I worked at when it filled up. It's a joint V.A. and State venture. They take excellent care of the graves and give utmost respect for families of the veteran they are burying.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:20:45 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: cva66snipe
There was a cemetery up by Plattsburgh NY Air Force Base where they bulldozed all the headstones into the river. Apparently the priest and the city got into a snit and the city didn’t want to maintain the cemetery so it was bulldozed. Air Force volunteers used to try to retrieve the headstones for relatives.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:26:04 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: cva66snipe
I once worked in V.A. student work study program at a National Cemetery. When a marker was replaced we busted the old one with a sledge hammer and it went in the dumpster.
...
According to the article these headstones were on their way to be crushed.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:28:03 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: ladyjane
That's sad. Where I live there are a lot of small church or family cemeteries dating back to the 1700's. Either the church owning the cemetery or private land owner maintains or at least doesn't usually destroy or bother headstones.
That said the federal government dug up tens of thousands of graves in this area and moved them elsewhere. But they are marked graves.
In the case of the article the headstones are government property. The man took home government property. But he did not remove headstones where the grave would be left unmarked. The stones were to be destroyed because due to wear etc the V.A. had replaced them. How dignified can a person do it and I'm not being sarcastic. It will have to go somewhere and it should be busted up enough not to be identifiable to whom it identified as such.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:37:34 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: Moonman62
According to the article these headstones were on their way to be crushed. OK a policy change occurred. I worked at one in the early 1980's.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:40:54 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: MeshugeMikey
He doesn’t look like someone you’d want to babysit the kids.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:52:10 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: ladyjane
Wouldn’t that be desecrating a grave site?Sounds like a serious crime to me.
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:53:54 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Farmer Dean
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posted on
07/25/2015 6:55:20 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: cripplecreek
My grandmothers back steps are tombstones.This happended quite a bit with Yankee headstones in the South after the Civil War. My brother reworked an old walkway a few years ago. When he pulled up the mable stones, guess what he found...
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