Marilynn,
From what I heard on the news this morning the "person of interest" was
recently released from prison. He was in for arson. We have bridge festivals
every year and the one that was burned down was the one we go to every year.
It was a beautiful bridge.
Brian E. Smead
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:19 PM
To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Cemetery Vandalism last night
I truly hope these vandals are caught and a responsible judge includes
research and rebuilding and extensive community service hours along with one
year
[minimum] probation and random UAs.....plus the standard conditions of
release
PLUS electronic monitoring and house arrest or curfew.
rebuilding will not bring back the bridge...but will teach a lesson
also there are some special programs for child/youth firestarters/arsonists
that have proven very effective...the local FD should have the contacts. Of
course vandals who torch are different from troubled children with severe
mental
illness who are arsonists...both need to be stopped.
Judge Marilynn in NM
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THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
"Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
undisguised. This is a cemetery.
"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
--Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA