Just days before Memorial Day services were to be held at the 100-year-old Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, vandals damaged the 350-foot tall monument and graves of American sailors killed in a key battle during the War of 1812.
“The vandalism is complete disrespect for three American and three British naval officers,” Maggie Beckford, a park ranger with the site tells News 5.
Vandals scaled a fence blocking access to the 352-foot Doric column memorial, which is located on an island in Lake Erie, and is undergoing repairs and renovation.
Beckford wouldn’t describe the damage that was done to the memorial that was built between 1912 and 1915, but plywood could be seen covering the doorways into the graves.
Meanwhile, police are hunting for what they think are several suspects to attacked 93 graves in Warrenton, Virginia.
In Philadelphia, vandals preyed on the Greenmount cemetery.
“They don’t have no respect for the dead. You know, once a person dies it should be in peace whatever place they are I don’t know why they did this can’t they let them be in peace,” Iris Roman tells Fox 29.
Her mother was buried there 12 years ago.
After seeing an anarchist symbol spray painted in red on the ground, she said, “It was scary for me because I believe that symbol has something related with the devil.”
She added, “It scared us. We didn’t know what to do. It made us feel more sad than anything she was more of a Christian woman.”
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