Vandal in Illinois desecrates veteran tombs with swastikas
A man is in police custody for spray painting swastikas on as many as 200 gravestones at an Illinois cemetery.Many of the deceased, to be sure, were Jewish, but in any case, this was a most obscene act of disrespect for human life, and the vandal should be given a serious punishment with a stiff fine to pay that can go towards mending the damage.
Authorities in southwestern Illinois arrested a 34-year-old unidentified man Saturday who has yet to be charged.
The man is also suspected of spray-painting the Nazi symbol on several homes in the Edwardsville area.
“We haven’t seen anything of this magnitude in the 30 years that I’ve been here,” Mark Johnson, the grounds superintendent of Sunset Hill Cemetery, told KMOV.
The Sunset Hills Cemetery in Glen Carbon is the resting place for more than`1,300 veterans.
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