Adams resident Mark Paquette told News10 he was watering flowers at Bellevue Cemetery last week when he saw broken flag poles on the ground.
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At the bottom of a hill, he saw that flags were missing from all the veterans’ graves, with the poles either left in their holders or broken and discarded on the ground.<\/p>\n
‘Who would do something like this? And what would they be doing with the flags?’ Paquette said.<\/p>\n
‘I was concerned that it was vandalism.’ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The vandalism turned out to be the result of the local groundhog population.<\/p>\n
Then, on Tuesday, a woman finally saw it occur with her own eyes at Bellevue. <\/p>\n
‘They saw the woodchuck jump up on a flag and pull it right out of the holder,’ Mark said.<\/p>\n
The Paquettes say that they’re thankful it wasn’t a cruel act of vandalism.<\/p>\n
‘I’m glad to see that the veterans are respected the way they are,’ Mark said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m sure that the local constabulary will issue a statement soon that there is no connection between the vandals and radical terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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