White River Junction, Hartford, New Hampshire: New Veterans Memorial Vandalized With Graffiti on Eve of Veterans Day
A newly built veterans memorial in White River Junction, in the town of Hartford, New Hampshire, was vandalized with graffiti on the eve of Veterans Day, when a Nazi symbol was drawn on it with a marker. According to a November 12 report in the Daily Dawn, citing the Valley News, the memorial was dedicated this past Memorial Day to honor Hartford residents who served in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and after 1975.
The timing of the vandalism, on Veterans Day, angered local residents. The report noted a similar incident in neighboring Lebanon this September, when Nazi symbols were sprayed near Ledyard Charter School, at the Lebanon shopping center, in the Water Street parking lot and at a cemetery on Dulac Street; Lebanon police said they had surveillance video of two juvenile suspects. It is not yet clear whether the White River Junction memorial case is connected to those incidents. The police investigation is ongoing, and cleanup of the memorial has yet to be scheduled.
Source: Daybreak
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Photo: 图：新罕布什尔州一处退伍军人纪念公园。图片来源：Wikimedia Commons，Kenneth C. Zirkel 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0。 Image: A veterans memorial park in New Hampshire. Source: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
