Antique Bronze "U.S" Star Emblem.

My guess is they are trying as well they can to not cause theft of them. I appreciate this though understand such things may come to us in other ways with unknown pasts.
I have come across things I am distressed have left the veteran's or family's possession. Best I can do is my best, as with the hat, to return the item and at the least, honor it and them.

 

I feel the same way when I go to an estate sale and family photos are for sale. I'm sad there is no one in the family that wants them

 

Exactly.

 

My mother carries my step father's grave marker in the trunk of her car. It's made of bronze, I think. He was US Army, Korea, mortarman.

 

Ok.... I'll bite...... Why?

 

Because the cemetery doesn't allow the stars staked at the grave sites all year, only Memorial Day. Hence, her solution is keeping it in the trunk of her car all year, except Memorial Day, LOL!

 

Ah!!! Ok.......

 

I failed to state: Thank you for his service!!! Which isn't at all like me but I seem to have dain bramage lately.....

 

Our cemetery allows them, but they were being stolen and melted down so we've taken home all of my husband's grandparents and great-grandparents markers - Odd Fellows, Masons, Military. Don't know what to do with them, but didn't want them stolen. They took a cast iron small fence that was around one great-grandfather's grave.

 

Pardon....... Fekin' hemorrhoids.

 

Hi,
Talk about stealing grave fences. I like going to old cemetaries and photographing unusual stones and plaques. I was at one and found a small cast iron tassel near the roadway. I took it home and a week later there was TV news cast talking about a cemetary robbery where a fancy cast iron fence was removed. They were showing photos of the original fence. There were tassels hanging between draping ropes. I contacted the station and put me in touch with the police and I returned the one that I found.
greg

 

One more reason not to deal in grave markers; you never know if it's been stolen and the original owner might come back to get it.

 

There was just an article in the local paper about a man and woman who stole Veterans grave markers and sold them for scrap. The article said more than 88 graves were destroyed in just one cemetery and several cemeteries were involved. This is just so sad and disturbing!

 

<For you. > For them.

 

Hi,
Other things have happened. I remember when I first got married, they were going to demolish the old farm house I grew up in. I went there looking for something to salvage as a keepsake. Then I remembered there was a block of marble used as a step for the kitchen door. I went and started to pry it up and flipped it over. It was a TOMBSTONE.!!!!! from the 1840s. The last name was still readable as well as the death year but the inscriptions were worn away. I put it in my trunk and wondered why it was where I found it. I cleaned it up and placed on a steel table I had where the glass top broke. My wife was having fits but I used it as a coffee table. After a while the wifey calmed down when spirits did not start to haunt the house. At a reunion several years later I asked about the stone. Found out there was a family cemetery on the next farm and the owners tossed the four or five markers in a dump. My grandfather who hated to see anything go to waste brought one home and used it as a step. It was a shame that a family history was wiped out and the ground plowed. I ended up selling it when I divorced and was moving into a studio apartment.
greg

 

Their penance should be to serve veterans who are ill and/or injured for at least a year. Included in that is maintenance work at those cemeteries.

 

So sad. But what can you do with that one. You tried.

 

We could hope!

 

This was a couple - according to the paper the sentence for her was: (I removed her name) was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to two counts of felony receiving stolen property, with a seven year probation sentence agreed upon for one counts. She will owe a total of more than $8,500 in restitution to two cemeteries.

I don't think the husband has been sentenced yet. I couldn't find anything about him. But, you are right. They should have to take care of veterans and they should have to (at the very least) repair all the graves they destroyed.

 

One night when I was a kid someone took all all of the bronze and iron markers from a family cemetery plot which we could see from our bedroom windows. Even though we were in the "burying business" we have "cremated and scattered" ever since. Service markers were kept in boxes until I donated them recently to respective organizations. There is no one left in the family to keep them. I have no idea what the organizations will do with them.................