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.