Veterans' graves desecrated on Orcas Island (twice, they came back last night)

[uppityperson]

Just in case anyone is in the San Juans or has connections there. I thought it was a local teen prank, but not sure since they came back. Don't want to think it was locals, but someone ferrying in seems odd also. They did this twice this weekend. This pisses me off.

http://www.sanjuanislander.com/county/sheriff/flag.shtml

Vandals twice attacked Veterans' graves in Woodlawn Cemetery on Orcas Island this Memorial Day weekend, burning American flags and placing swastika-bearing flags in their place.

"It was an outrage," said said Bob Folk, a Vietnam Vet and former American Legion Post 93 commander. "Just the thought of doing it..." "This crime is an outrage to every veteran, veteran's family, friends of their family, and the community as a whole," San Juan County Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday, May 28. "This is not an act of free speech, this is a crime."

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Legionnaires and their friends rounded up flags to replace the missing and charred flags. "We had a enough to put back up Sunday evening," Folk said.

A cemetery caretaker remained in the area and watched the cemetery until 4 a.m. Monday morning. A short time later it was discovered that the vandals struck again, cutting up flags and replacing 33 of them with the hand-drawn swastika flags.
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Anyone with information about the persons who planned and carried out this crime are asked to contact the sheriff's office at 360.378.4151.

[flamingyouth]

1. That is just awful, to put it mildly.

Sick.

[SeattleGirl]

2. May this come back to whomever did this, ten-fold.

That is beyond despicable.

[maxsolomon]

3. teenagers are stupid assholes

don't let them get to you - that's their goal.

THIS is an outrage: http://icasualties.org/oif/

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

4. Teenagers also enlist in our military

And as it so happens some are even killed . Forgiving that kind of a terrible deed for many is right next to a thing called impossible.

And really can there ever be forginingness for such a terrible thing? Not standing truthfully.

Because there is evil in that.
and there is evil everywhere.Or some say so threw experience in it.

And I would not throw some kind of a blanket over all teenagers because of a few evil minded of the worst kind.

Talk to some-and than you will see.

[Pierzin]

5. Just horrible! Disrepectful, heinous, deplorable and sad

Our veterans sacrifice their very lives to serve to defend the USA.
Whomever is responsible for this disrespectful act should be shamed in front of the community. Comparing veterans to Nazis is ignorant and deplorable.
Someone or someone(s) is beyond stupid and does not understand our own national history, nor do they understand world history and the role that soldiers play in that history.
Shame on these nincompoops who pulled this prank!

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

6. Every picture tells a storey

And words form a picture. I think Perzin that says it. And I think you are right,there is already enough killing and hatefulness going around in the world-today- kids play with matches-and arsonists are not kids.

Some adults never come out of teenage years and some teenagers were never really teenagers at all,reguardless to what they are it is threw law the coals become cooled.