Dear editor,
I am outraged that there are people in my home town that are so disrespectful.
I put a new flower arrangement on my parents’ headstone in Highland Cemetery in September.
The first of this month, November, I received a call from my sister saying the flowers were gone. The arrangement was a saddle that fit on top of the headstone.
I sent another arrangement the middle of November and received a call on the 29th saying that, once again, the flowers are gone along with the flag that was placed at my father’s gravesite.
Stealing flowers from a gravesite is not only disrespectful it is also hurtful.
Those flowers were to honor my mother and father and the flag was to honor my father’s service as a WWII veteran.
Whoever stole these items does not deserve either. I believe that there is a special place for anyone who steals from a gravesite.
Elaine Barnett,
Jefferson City, Mo.
