Texas Town Crowdfunds Rebuilding Effort for Damaged Veterans Memorial

[jimnyc]

Go to somewhere in a place like California, and they will be fighting to bring down pretty much any memorial that they can place their eyes on. But in Texas, where someone thought it cool to damage a handful of war memorials. So instead of leaving it, or taking them down, or expecting the township to replace - the town is getting together themselves and using crowd funding to gather the funds needed to rebuild! Bravo to them!! I surely hope they receive the funding necessary from the city regardless to replace these priceless memorials.

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Texas Town Crowdfunds Rebuilding Effort for Damaged Veterans Memorial

A western central Texas community jumped in to help an area veterans group raise funds to restore a war memorial that mysteriously sustained thousands of dollars of damage in the past week.

Breitbart Texas reported that four of 12 commemorative granite tablets, part of a larger memorial, were found in pieces on Sunday by Harold Stieber, president of the Central Texas Veterans Memorial Committee. He estimated the replacement tablets could cost more than $40,000.

The Central Texas Veterans Memorial recognizes all U.S. war veterans in a dozen stone structures and 14 plaques but specifically pays homage to the 259 locals who died while serving their country from World War I to military operations as recently as post-9/11. One of the destroyed tablets read, in part: “We honor all selfless heroes for your courageous service … Your sacrifice is what made this country great. We salute you!”

Dr. Steve Kelly, the group’s immediate past president, told Breitbart Texas that this tribute site, located in Brownwood, stands in a city-owned park that was once the 36th Division headquarters of the World War II military training facility Camp Bowie. He called the memorial a “salute to sacrifice.” Kelly estimated each of the destroyed tablets weighed roughly 3,000 pounds.

Rest - http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/...rans-memorial/

[Gunny]

Go to somewhere in a place like California, and they will be fighting to bring down pretty much any memorial that they can place their eyes on. But in Texas, where someone thought it cool to damage a handful of war memorials. So instead of leaving it, or taking them down, or expecting the township to replace - the town is getting together themselves and using crowd funding to gather the funds needed to rebuild! Bravo to them!! I surely hope they receive the funding necessary from the city regardless to replace these priceless memorials.

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Texas Town Crowdfunds Rebuilding Effort for Damaged Veterans Memorial

A western central Texas community jumped in to help an area veterans group raise funds to restore a war memorial that mysteriously sustained thousands of dollars of damage in the past week.

Breitbart Texas reported that four of 12 commemorative granite tablets, part of a larger memorial, were found in pieces on Sunday by Harold Stieber, president of the Central Texas Veterans Memorial Committee. He estimated the replacement tablets could cost more than $40,000.

The Central Texas Veterans Memorial recognizes all U.S. war veterans in a dozen stone structures and 14 plaques but specifically pays homage to the 259 locals who died while serving their country from World War I to military operations as recently as post-9/11. One of the destroyed tablets read, in part: “We honor all selfless heroes for your courageous service … Your sacrifice is what made this country great. We salute you!”

Dr. Steve Kelly, the group’s immediate past president, told Breitbart Texas that this tribute site, located in Brownwood, stands in a city-owned park that was once the 36th Division headquarters of the World War II military training facility Camp Bowie. He called the memorial a “salute to sacrifice.” Kelly estimated each of the destroyed tablets weighed roughly 3,000 pounds.

Rest - http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/...rans-memorial/

West Central Texas is a BIG place. It didn't mention the town's name? I live in South Central Texas, so that would be sort of around San Angelo, where Goodfellow AFB is, or was, if they haven't closed it. But there are hundreds of small towns up that way. How do think we keep this state red with Dallas, Houston and Austin all blue?

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Ought catch the low life sacks of horse piss that did this and string them up by their America hating nuts sacks.

I swear we need to bring vigilantes. Start putting the fear in some of these filthy sons a bitches that if the vigilantes catch them, they won't won't be getting any cushy jail cell, fed and released the next day. Going to be a whole different program if the vigilantes catch you, and guaranteed you ain't gonna like it.