[ladyjane]

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.

[cva66snipe]

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.

[Farmer Dean]

Wouldn’t that be desecrating a grave site?Sounds like a serious crime to me.