Shame on area vandals

May 16, 2008 10:33 am

— Editor, Daily Press:
This is a letter to whomever has been breaking grave markers at the Long Spring cemetery.
You should be ashamed of yourself. You are destroying markers of loved ones. This is an older, Indian cemetery; mostly family relatives are buried there. We love the ones who are gone. Maybe someday you will grow up to know what it is to lose a mother or father or grandparents. I hope and pray you don’t have vandalism like you’ve been doing to our loved ones.
To me, it is heart-breaking to know someone out there at or around the Long Spring Church cemetery can be so heartless. This is a hard thing to write, but God knows who you are, and I hope you get your just rewards. He forgives you even though you don’t deserve it.
Leave our dead loved ones in peace. Destroy your own home, not the resting place of our loved ones. Shame on you; you know who you are, too. I hope you had fun, because now I’m going to pray for the Lord to deal with you in his way.
Most people who have loved ones at Long Spring are getting up in age; we can’t be there all the time to keep you vandals out.
To those who have come here to help restore the church: God bless you in your work. You don’t know what a wonderful thing you are doing. My great-uncle was the preacher there 63 years ago. My father helped send finance to have a fence put up; it’s still there, and now he and my mother lay at rest there. One of the markers was Mom’s and Uncle Bill’s.
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