What in the Blue Hell is this? From Texas?
Liberty County Veteran's Grave Vandalized
The family of a fallen Marine is dealing with another shock -- their son's new grave was vandalized.
Lance Cpl. Jeremy Burris, 22, of Liberty, died in Iraq and was buried at Cook Memorial Cemetery earlier this week.
Let's just go over this one time, in case anyone out there missed this.
Graves are for families. There are exactly zero circumstances under which it is acceptable to cause a grieving family further pain. Zero.
Bill Offutt, a Vietnam veteran, was one of the people who helped clean up the mess before anyone could see it.
"It was trashed," said Offutt, "The wreaths that had been around the grave -- they ripped them apart and stuff was strewn everywhere."
Well done, Mr. Offutt. And well done to those individuals who cleaned up the AO before the vandalism became a spectacle.
Somewhere in Liberty County there are some young folks (that's just a guess on my part, but I think it's a good one), in need of the mother of all ass-whippings. Then they need to marched down to the local VA hospital like five year olds who stole candy, and made to apologize to every patron of that medical facility.
Godspeed, LCpl. Burris. Pay no attention to vandals, there are so many more of us who are simply thankful.
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