Friday 22nd August 2008
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Despicable desecration
The south and north faces of the plinth of the sandstone obelisk war memorial in the Tunstall Garden of Remembrance have identical rectangular metal dedication plaques while the west and east have identical metal wreaths.
Or at least the opposite faces did have identical wreaths until some 24 hours ago when some wretch wrenched the copper wreath on the east face from its four metal pins embedded in the stone and made off with it.
This obelisk was erected originally in the 1920s to commemorate the hundreds of people who gave their lives in the 1914-18 First World War.
What sort of person has absolutely no respect for such a memorial?
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"What sort of person has absolutely no respect for such a memorial?"
The kind of person who would sell the copper wreath to a scrap dealer.
Any scrap dealer who buys this will know where it has come from. Lets hope that they get caught and charged.