To the Editor:
On Sunday, May 12, I visited my parents’ graves only to find two white antique urns missing. The urns had been in place for at least 30 years in the West Bristol Cemetery in Walpole. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would steal something from a cemetery, but owing to the state of our world today, I guess anything is possible.
The urns were cast iron, and would not have been easy to move by one person alone, so I’m supposing that there was more than one thief. They were in place on Saturday, so the theft must have occurred on Saturday night.
For many years I thought of this area as being immune to such an act, but obviously we have an unsavory element here, as well as in other parts of the country. It saddens me to think that Maine is becoming more like our neighbors to the south.
I hope that the common decency of the Maine people isn’t being lost, and that things like this are an aberration.
