[ Homepage ] [ Deism ] [ Christianity in America ] [ Debunking Islam ]
[ Article List ] [ Sullivan County, TN ] [ Bristol VA/TN ]

GRAVE SITES OF AMERICAN VETERANS VANDALIZED
U. S. Flags Replaced with Swastikas

James H. Lilley

Spineless cowards sneaked into a graveyard on Orcas Island off Washington’s northwest coast and burned dozens of small American Flags that had been placed to honor veterans who had served our country. Members of the American Legion replaced the burned flags with new ones on Sunday afternoon May 27th, but the vandals struck again, creeping back into the graveyard on Memorial Day shortly after a guard departed at sunrise. This time they replaced the American Flags with hand drawn swastikas.

The actions of you spineless bastards aren’t your right to free speech as you might think or claim it to be. You desecrated the graves of those who so gallantly answered the call and served our nation. Yet, your actions go far beyond defiling the graves in a single cemetery on an island off our West Coast. By your cowardly act you’ve spit in the faces of every man and woman who has served or fought for this nation all the way back to George Washington. America became a free land because of those who were willing to sacrifice everything—including their very lives to guarantee our freedom. And vermin like you sneak around in the darkness and dishonor their memory and mock their bravery. You don’t deserve to breathe the same air or walk the same grounds as these men and women who died to make it free air and ground.

I only wish that a combined Military Honor Guard had arrived at the Orcas Island Cemetery to pay homage to those servicemen and women buried there and caught you in the act of desecrating their graves. I doubt that you would’ve stood your ground and faced angry Marines, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen. No, the sniveling cowards that you are, you would’ve run away crying and begging for mercy, hurrying to find an ACLU lawyer to defend you. Still, it would’ve been a pleasure to watch a Marine, Ranger or Seal stomp the snot out of you. Indeed it would’ve been a much better form of homage for those men and women whose graves you debased.

Once again this was a transgression overlooked by our mainstream media. I only learned of this act of cowardice from a military newsletter I receive weekly. The mainstream media made their obligatory appearances at ceremonies around the nation and vanished to cover car races, ballgames and the latest exploits of Lindsay Lohan. It seems they always have a camera crew ready to go anywhere in an instant when one of Hollywood’s stars or starlets pukes or makes a fool of themselves in public. How many hours have been devoted to Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff, Mel Gibson and others?

But, FOX, CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS will hurry to the funeral of a serviceman or woman killed in Afghanistan or Iraq—not to cover their burial or to honor them, but to publicize those who attend to protest and degrade a fallen hero. They are more than willing to keep the cameras rolling while protesters jeer the family and friends of a Marine or Soldier who gave their life in service of their country. They make sure the crude, vulgar signs held by the protestors fill our screens while a family tries to the mourn the loss of a loved one. And they have the nerve to call this news when it’s nothing more than openly supporting terrorist nations. Yes, by airing this trash the media is giving our terrorist enemies ample free propaganda for their anti-American training videos.

It seems that news, which would outrage a great segment of our nation and bring cries for justice falls by the wayside. Surely every veteran, their families and friends and so many others across the country would have been angered by the desecration of the graves on Orcas Island—if only they were informed. Instead citizens around the nation will be choked by the Lindsay Lohan soap opera, while families weep as they bury a fallen hero amid the jeers of well-publicized anti-war activists. If it’s true that our country is spiraling into the depths of hell, the liberal media is doing its share to speed the process.

Also see Are facts racism? The Killers of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom

Other articles by James H. Lilley

Biography

James Lilley is a former Marine and highly decorated 25 year veteran of the Howard County, Maryland Police Department. During his career with the police department he worked in the Uniformed Patrol Division, Criminal Investigations Division, investigating crimes from auto theft to burglary, robbery and murder. He also spent 3 years as the Supervisor of the Forensic Services Section, working with Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) gathering and processing evidence at various crime scenes. Mr. Lilley then moved on to supervise the police department’s Street Drug Section, which was responsible for making 2,000 drug related arrests in just over two years. With those arrests came a reputation that was feared by those in the drug culture and loved by families wanting to live a peaceful existence in their own neighborhoods.

Known as the “Cops in the Black Shirts” they came out of nowhere dressed as construction workers, telephone repairmen, housing inspectors, survey takers and Mr. Lilley also posed as a drug dealer during a sting operation. Arrests made by officers in his section led to the seizure of 116,000 doses of LSD along with a large quantity of Marijuana and Peyote in Oregon. Mr. Lilley and the officers in his Street Drug Section were also featured in the book Undercover, written by Hans Halberstadt and published by Simon and Schuster in August, 1998. In addition to his regular duties he taught at the Police Academy and directed In-Service training classes for veteran officers. Some of Mr. Lilley’s many awards include the Medal of Valor, 4 Bronze Stars, 4 Unit Citations, a Governor’s Citation and dozens of awards for outstanding service to the community.

While serving with the United States Marine Corps, James was stationed in Okinawa where he began practicing the Martial Art of Karate. He began his study almost 44 years ago under Sensei Takeshi Miyagi and was the first American ever to be promoted to the rank of Black Belt by Mr. Miyagi. In August, 2002 Mr. Lilley was promoted to the rank of Eighth Degree Black Belt and is a certified and licensed teacher by the Okinawa Shorin Ryu Karate Do Association. Additionally, while he served with the Howard County Police Department, he was certified as a Physical Training and Defensive Tactics Instructor by the Maryland Police and Corrections Training Commission.

Mr. Lilley is a published author, with six novels to his credit. The following books are available at Amazon.com, or through his web site, http://www.jameshlilley.com

A Question of Honor
Just Retribution
The Far Side of the Bridge
Death Knocks Twice
The Eyes of the Hunter
A Miracle for Tony Clements

I was notified by Lieutenant Raymond Foster, LAPD (Ret) that he has added my name to a list of police writers from across the country. This site is exceptionally well done, and provides a link to the officer/writer's particular department, as well as so many other interesting sites. And, having served in the Marine Corps, he's also added my name to the list of military writers. If you have time, look the sites over and please pass along the information to your listeners and readers.

http://www.police-writers.com/james_lilley.html
http://www.military-writers.com/james_lilley.html

 


This is a hate crime???

[ Grundy VA Fraud ] [ Social Apartheid ] [ Guestbook Archive

[ Killing Children ] [ George Bush Defends Saudi Terrorism ] [ Islamic Fascism ]
[ Palestine Myth ] [ Arlene Peck on Arabs ] [ Muslim Immigration Must be Halted ]

Visitors since
March 2002