{"id":38085,"date":"2013-10-22T06:56:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T10:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38085"},"modified":"2013-10-22T06:56:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T10:56:50","slug":"vets-spongebob-headstone-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38085","title":{"rendered":"Vet’s SpongeBob headstone removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Fox News<\/a> the story of the family of Corporal Kimberly Walker, a veteran of two tours in Iraq, battles the Spring Grove Cemetery over the family’s choice of a head stone for the twenty-eight-year-old who was found strangled and beaten in a hotel room in Colorado Springs on Valentine’s Day. It appears that the Cemetery had approved the headstone initially and then withdrew that approval of the seven-foot monument after it was installed along with an exact duplicate for Walker’s sister.<\/p>\n

“We’ve decided that they aren’t appropriate for our historic cemetery and they can’t be displayed here,” Freytag said, adding that the employee who approved the headstones made an inexplicable error in judgment, given the cemetery’s traditional, stately appearance.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged that the cemetery is at fault and that staff members would be meeting with Walker’s family on Tuesday to try to find a solution, which could include a more traditional gravestone bearing small likeness of the character.<\/p>\n

Freytag also said Spring Grove is prepared to reimburse the family for each headstone, which cost a combined $26,000, and pay for new ones.<\/p>\n

“I feel terrible that it got to this point but I’m hoping we can come out at the other end of the tunnel with a solution,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only opinion that I have over this is that the Cemetery probably shouldn’t have approved it in the first place, but since they did, they need to abide by that decision. In the Greater Scheme of Things, a Sponge Bob headstone probably doesn’t effect most people’s GIS meter, but the cemetery’s word does. By the way, Sponge Bob’s flag is on backward, the 82d patch is incomplete, and if she was a corporal, why is SB wearing sergeant stripes? Yeah, I couldn’t help myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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