Veteran's Day

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http://wbztv.com/local/cemetery.vand...2.1306878.html

Kingston, MA; Police in Kingston are looking for the vandals who toppled some 80 headstones in the early morning hours of Veteran's Day.

"I thought about how disturbed she would be, to know that this not only happened to her stone, but that it happened at all," said Norman Tucker, whose mother is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.

The vandals knocked over more than 80 headstones, some weighing close to 1,500 pounds.

They pushed entire families to the ground, and turned stones upside down.

Perhaps most unsettling, is that the vandals picked on the graves of several WWII vets on Veteran's Day.

The man who oversees the cemetery served in Vietnam.

"This was a senseless act by people who have no dignity," said Daryl Lawrence.

The vandals targeted more than headstones. They took down the memorial to local veterans across the street.

"That's pretty lousy," said cemetery board member Fred Navace. "It doesn't make any sense to me."

Some of the damaged headstones date back to the mid 1800s. Most are in areas that are hard to see from the street.

Caretakers say drinking teens have been chased from the cemetery's wooded hill many times, and wouldn't be surprised if there's a connection.

The Evergreen Cemetery contains about 800 family plots. This is its first case of serious vandalism in its 160-year history.