Should have simply turned them smooth side up & likely nothing would have come from it.
Some one is going to jail
Not necessarily. There was one like that on the news here once. Turned out the stones were culls, either the names were spelled wrong, dates were wrong, stone finish was poor, basically rejects.
Somebody got ahold of them when the Monument company was cleaning house and used them accordingly.
Should have simply turned them smooth side up & likely nothing would have come from it.
No...they should not have been used at all, to do so is beyond rude and disrespectful, Military grave or Civilian.
Not necessarily. There was one like that on the news here once. Turned out the stones were culls, either the names were spelled wrong, dates were wrong, stone finish was poor, basically rejects.
That is a different matter entirely.
Not necessarily. There was one like that on the news here once. Turned out the stones were culls, either the names were spelled wrong, dates were wrong, stone finish was poor, basically rejects.
Somebody got ahold of them when the Monument company was cleaning house and used them accordingly.
I delivered a ton of these. 1 out of 4 were damaged or spelling mistakes and they got thrown out. No big deal. Move along.
a follow up to this story, as pointed out as a possibility in a post above, these markers were defects and had been placed in a landfill. this guy found them and took them to be used. they are now being removed and will be destroyed and disposed of properly. here's the follow up on the story.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...6514ec4-e535-585a-a8e1-07fb6f98d8a9.html
That is a hillbilly part of the world. Lived in Springfield for a spell.
On Monday, Ozark County Sheriff Darrin Reed said the stones had been cut by a local monument company and, because of spelling errors or blemishes, were tossed into a landfill. Reed said a local man admitted to taking them and using them on his property.
Reed said he sought no charges because Chaney Monument Co., which cut them, never billed the federal government for the defective headstones, and because the local man hadn’t realized the significance of his pilfering.
“The guy used poor judgment and taste,” Reed said. “He kept apologizing to us. He’s a very simple sort, and he told me he didn’t think the thing through.”
Old news, give it up!! Local here, all legal and above board, company rejects broken blah blah nothing more to see OVER!!!
I'm ex-military and I see it as a MONUMENT to those that served!!
BTW my reasoning for bringing this back up and posting the link to the story as a follow up is because if i raised the question about all of it i think i owed it to the guy to post that it was found he was not trying to be malicious or degrading to the memory of those who served. he just didn't think it through as he was quoted saying.
In the small City where I work, the local Council has used what appears to be old grave stones as paving..They have been down along time and now many of the inscriptions are illegible.
Every time I walk through the area, I can't help but feel its very disrespectful. The gravestones are fairly old, dating back to the 1800's, but even so, something does not sit quite right..