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Plaque missing from grave of deceased Marine found on 5-year-old’s grave

“I don’t know how it got there, but that’s where it needed to be,” said Karen May, the mother of U.S. Marine Sgt. Kenneth May, who was killed in 2010.

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Mom captures emotional moment at memorial with hearing impaired son

As 10-year-old Darren, who is hearing impaired, went to leave the cemetery, he turned to the rows of burials and displayed the sign for “I love you.”

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Woman steals veterans’ headstones to build fire pit (VIDEO)

Neighbors said the woman has a history of mental illness and drug abuse and that she intentionally burned down her own home last year and now lives in a plywood shed.

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Cemetery tells family they can’t keep SpongeBob SquarePants headstone over Army daughter’s grave

An Ohio family was forced to remove a SpongeBob SquarePants headstone from their Army daughter’s grave, even though the Cincinnati cemetery originally gave them permission to put it there. Kimberly Walker, the 28-year-old Army sergeant who was allegedly slain by her soldier boyfriend on Valentine’s Day, had a special place in her heart for SpongeBob […]

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Grave Robbers Beware: Cemetery guns and coffin torpedoes

There was a time when vampires, zombies and the undead were not the only cemetery problems we faced. There were, in fact, very real dangers of grave robbing in the (crooked) name of medicine. To combat the body snatchers? Cemetery guns, of course.

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