More than 150 headstones for veterans’ graves plundered to build cemetery worker’s carport floor

[Draggingtree]

The Washington Post:

More than 150 headstones for veterans’ graves plundered to build cemetery worker’s carport floor

 

When headstones on the graves of fallen servicemen crack or fade with age, they’re hauled away to be honorably destroyed. Then the Department of Veterans Affairs replaces them.

 

But at a veterans cemetery in Rhode Island, an employee who was supposed to be taking care of the graves pillaged more than 150 granite headstones, many of them still inscribed with the names of the veterans. Then he took the markers home to build a floor for his carport.