Just saw on the news that someone burned the US flags on some veterans graves and replaced some with hand made flags with swastikas. No suspects yet.
In another story two 13 year old boys are facing felony charges for throwing eggs at police and military veterans starting services for fallen soldiers.
One of the above happened in the upper northwest corner of WA. I don't remember for sure which one, but think it is the flag story.
I don't know what all can be done with the boys with their age even with a felony charge but I hope they nail them in some way. I also hope that they can catch the a$$h0les that did the flags.
Thank you any and all veterans for all that you have done and continue to do.
Jim
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These things usually occur in the Summer months. This is when most teenagers are out of school with nothing to do but bad stuff.
We had the same thing occur in Massachusetts. Bunch of teenagers took some flags off of veterans graves and burned them in the trash. An off-duty cop looked in the trash and found them.
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Just saw on the news that someone burned the US flags on some veterans graves and replaced some with hand made flags with swastikas. No suspects yet.
In another story two 13 year old boys are facing felony charges for throwing eggs at police and military veterans starting services for fallen soldiers.
One of the above happened in the upper northwest corner of WA. I don't remember for sure which one, but think it is the flag story.
I don't know what all can be done with the boys with their age even with a felony charge but I hope they nail them in some way. I also hope that they can catch the a$$h0les that did the flags.
Thank you any and all veterans for all that you have done and continue to do.
Jim
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At least they're young and stupid (maybe overly idealistic).
What's the excuse for the way, old, wealthy, intelligent people
treat disabled American vets who attempt to get the medical
attention they deserve?
A flag's just a bit of cloth on a stick.
A brain-injured young person who got that way serving his country
is a hell of a lot more.
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I'd have liked to catch those SOB's desecrating the graves. As for the boys, I recommend making them do community service in a veterans hospital. Might open their eyes a little. For all you veterans out there, I'm embarassed for these so called citizens that do these disrespectful things. Thank you all for your service to our country.
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The vandals who desecrated the graves of U.S. veterans over the Memorial Day weekend were professionals, says a Vietnam vet who kept night watch at the cemetery in Washington State.
"We thought at first it was just a prank-type deal at first. We were very upset about it and so forth but now we know that this is a real deal," said David Resch, a past commander of American Legion Post 93 in Eastsound, Wash. "This is a Nazi act, not just somebody going out there and desecrating things for the fun of it."
No one has taken responsibility for back-to-back flag desecrations at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Orcas Island, Wash., according to San Juan County Sheriff Bill Cumming.
"It's speculative at this point to assign it to an organized group or juveniles that for some reason wanted to shock the community," Cumming said.
On Sunday morning, members of the Boyle B. Martin American Legion post found desecrated the flags of 97 veterans. Of those, 46 flag standards were empty, 33 contained burned flags and 14 had been replaced with handmade swastika flags, authorities said.
Resch kept watch early Monday after legionnaires replaced the flags, but the vandals struck again under the cover of darkness.
"I didn't see anybody," said Resch, who told FOXNews.com that he kept watch from 12:30 a.m. to 4:40 a.m. "They're very professional."
Thirty-three flags had been replaced with hand-drawn swastika flags, according to the San Juan County Sheriff's Office in Friday Harbor, Wash.
"The scale and the tenacity and the timing, I don't think this is the work of one person," Cumming said. "We think it's more than one."
Officials are trying to get physical evidence, such as fingerprints, from the paper and duct tape left behind.
The crimes have stunned this small community of approximately 5,000 people.
"It's a small island, and I think if it's local folks that did it, everybody kind of talks to everybody about certain things, you know," said Pierrette Guimond, district commissioner for San Juan Cemetery District No. 3, which includes Woodlawn.
It's the first act of vandalism to take place in the cemetery, she said.
"If people want to protest something this is not the place to do it," Guimond said. "People go there to think about the people that went to war for their country and stuff like that. It's a really sacred place."
The vandalism is considered a hate crime under Washington state law, Cumming said.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Veterans Affairs said the federal government does not have jurisdiction in the case.
"We don't have jurisdiction over issues of vandalism because it's a veterans' grave in a private, community cemetery," said Jo Schuda, a VA spokeswoman. "If it was in a federal cemetery, it would be a federal crime subject to potential charges brought in federal court."
Despite the vandalism, Post 93 performed its Memorial Day tributes Monday afternoon, including playing "Taps" at the cemetery. Around 75 people turned out for the ceremony.
Watch it there buddy, I'm a native born and raised NORTH IDAHO guy..................................
Seriously though, I don't like any graves, especially veterans graves messed with for any reason.
The flag burning and swastika incident took place in Orcas Island, WA.
J/K...You know I love yer potaters....
Seriously though my thought mirror your statement...amazing that something like that can happen in such a small, isolated community (been there, it is a very beautiful island).
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