In a message dated 10/10/01 10:17:21 PM US Eastern Standard Time, elasley@sigecom.net writes: > > Jack, > > I just got home from the Owensville Parks board meeting, they voted to stop > the restroom project, remove it, and restore the monument to it's original > condition. There is a groove through the bricks in the back that they > sawed to attach the roof flashing that will need to be fixed. A couple of > hundred showed up at the meeting. I wish we could get a crowd like that > when we are trying to save a cemetery! > > Ernie > > Ernie, If people like you don't speak out against the desecration of a Memorial to those who served our country with Honor, then you won't have a turn out like you had. Most will just say "There's' nothing I can do" And the Inevitable Defacing of our Memorials will continue, just like it does with our cemeteries. Thanks for being there for those of us who couldn't. I know I speak out sometimes when a lot of our List wish I would keep quiet.. But as long as there is a Wrong being pushed by people with Greedy motives, I will continue to do so, whether anyone likes it or not. Ernie, I'm sure in their hearts, if not in words, everyone wishes to thank you. When the Memorial was built, emotions were running high like they are now. At that time some did not come Home. The Memorial in Owensville is a Symbol that replaces Tombstones and was a place friends and relatives could go and Remember their Loved ones and be at Peace with God. God bless you, well done, jb502000@aol.com (Jack Briles)