A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti. In Kentucky, a driver deliberately drove across grave sites marked by white wooden crosses. Looters ripped up parts of Virginia’s Petersburg National Battlefield in an apparent search for relics.
Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, officials said.
A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti.
The vandalism occurred sometime during the past week, KCAL/KCBS-TV reported.
The homespun memorial painted on a block-long wall on Pacific Avenue lists the names of American service members missing in action or otherwise unaccounted for in Southeast Asia.
News of the vandalism came as another veterans-related memorial was reported damaged in Henderson, Kentucky.
Police say a Memorial Day cross display there that honors the names of 5,000 veterans of conflicts dating back to the Revolutionary War has been damaged by a driver who plowed through the crosses early Saturday.
Anthony Burrus, 27, was arrested in connection with the incident that took place early on Saturday morning. Roughly 160 crosses were knocked down and about 20 were destroyed.
The vehicle Burrus was driving, a 1979 Ford Thunderbird, was found with pieces of a cross and ground stake embedded in the tires.
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