PAX Centurion - Spring 2019

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • Spring 2019 • Page 25 A s we were about to go to press, we received the terrible and disgusting news that our Police Memorial, located at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Roslindale, had been vandalized sometimes during the early-morning hours of March 18 th -19 th , along with a memorial to WW2 South Boston/Dorchester veterans located on Southie’s Castle Island which had been vandalized the night before. The cowardly thugs, operating under the cover of darkness, used some sort of oil to stain and darken the granite monuments. As of today (March 21 st ), we are unsure whether intense efforts to clean and restore the memorials will be successful. Different methods are being tried to draw the oil-based substance from the granite, and many volunteers and professionals have offered different solutions for restoration and cleaning. What IS certain is that these acts of vandalism were orchestrated and targeted; they were simply not the work of some drunken fools after St. Patrick’s Day festivities. The monuments are many miles apart from each other across the city, and represent the two forces which stand against anarchy, communism and social decay and protect our democracy from the forces of evil: The military and the police. At this time, we do not know the individual identities of those responsible for these heinous crimes, but we can surmise from our collective common sense that they harbor a sick, warped hatred towards the military and the police. Whether the perpetrators were actual members of local police/military hate-groups, such as ANTIFA, (AKA: “ PANTI -FA”) is not yet known, but the ideology that drove these reprehensible acts certainly points in that direction. Cowards who cover their faces with ski-masks and incite riots, the people who committed these crimes operate under cover of darkness and attack unguarded monuments dedicated to the memories of people who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the rights of the very people who desecrated these monuments . Generally speaking, these faceless cowards are found at our local institutions of higher learning, indoctrinated by their professors, and live in their parent’s basements. They communicate the only way they know how, through “social” media backwater outlets, and plot to come out at night to cause mayhem and destruction and upset the civil order. They are despicable and contemptible people, and it is our hope Decency, Civility, Respect: Are they all gone? South Boston WW2 Memorial, Mt. Hope Cemetery Police Memorial vandalized and desecrated By James W. Carnell, Pax Editor that they will be identified, either through evidence or information received. They should be sentenced to clean the monuments with their tongues and a toothbrush, but perhaps their very presence at these monuments would itself be an abomination, as they are unworthy of licking the boots of any whose memories are recalled at these hallowed sites. We will keep our retirees and members updated on the progress of efforts to clean these monuments.