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Outrage as vandals desecrate war memorial
6:18am Thursday 17th July 2008
Comments (27)Vandals have attacked a memorial to war heroes from a Hampshire village.
The millennium project was built by Bishopstoke Parish Council to salute those who sacrificed their lives in the two world wars.
But it has been knocked off its support and left lying face down on the ground.
The village authority's insurance company is assessing the damage and it is hoped that it can be repaired.
The attack on the memorial at Riverside has angered community and Royal British Legion leaders.
Shocked' Council chairman Anne Winstanley: "I am shocked that someone should vandalise the memorial which was in memory of the village dead. It has never been touched before.
"There are a few cracks on the stone but we hope it can be repaired."
Norman Brown, chairman of Eastleigh, Chandler's Ford and District Branch of The Royal British Legion, said: "It's disgusting that youngsters have got no respect for the ones who gave their lives so they could have their liberty."
He said that if the offenders were caught they should do two or three years in the armed services.
The memorial stone is close to a roll of honour inscribed with about 60 names from both world wars.
They include the late Vernon Cook who died when HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy's Second World War fleet, was sunk by the German battleship Bismark in 1941, with the loss of all but three of her crew of 1,419.
A police spokesman said the vandalism was being investigated.
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Infantryman, soton says...
6:53am Thu 17 Jul 08
Go, tell the Spartans though passest by that faithful to their precepts here we lie.
They offered all, and gave all !
Condor Man, Southampton says...
7:39am Thu 17 Jul 08
JB Soton, Gosport says...
7:48am Thu 17 Jul 08
They have no respect for the living, terrorising neighbours,the elderly etc.
Suppose we should not be surprised they have none for the dead.
Fred, says...
8:02am Thu 17 Jul 08
Ah the old national service punishment. Real members of the armed services do not want scumbags fighting alongside them - they need men and women they can trust their lives with.
A far more useful job would be community service such as sorting my garbage or dismantling old electrical equipment into component parts - rather than sending it half way around the World to be done.
offended, says...
8:09am Thu 17 Jul 08
Fred wrote:Put the offending, offensive, culprits in public stocks built by existing community service workers and invite the local community to bombard them with old rotting vegetables or something similar, then put photographs of them in local newspapers to further shame them.
\"He said that if the offenders were caught they should do two or three years in the armed services\"
Ah the old national service punishment. Real members of the armed services do not want scumbags fighting alongside them - they need men and women they can trust their lives with.
A far more useful job would be community service such as sorting my garbage or dismantling old electrical equipment into component parts - rather than sending it half way around the World to be done.
Mark, Moscow, Russia says...
8:10am Thu 17 Jul 08
What makes me angry about this report, and made me feel compelled to write, was the complete lack of respect and understanding of these youngsters. Nobody can blame this due to poverty, or that the local council don't provide facilities for the community. Volgograd is a much poorer city than anywhere in the UK. Drug and alcohol abuse are common in the city, as is organised crime, but never would anyone desecrate a memorial to the war dead.
All I can say, is that I am glad to have left Britain, as it is not the country it once was.
Perhaps National Service is the only option to restore law and order into British society.
How those lost in war would feel about the Britain they sacrificed their lives for.
We will remember them...
Is it too early for you, says...
8:17am Thu 17 Jul 08
Bright Spark wrote:It doesnt say it was youngsters,it says it was vandels.That could be people of any agegroup!!
How do they know it was youngsters? Probably was but ... anyway, let me get my hands on the vandals, I would do more than give them a bloody warning. Make them march through Eastleigh with placards saying \"We vandalised the war memorial\", then give them a bloody good kicking. That\'s what I would do.
Bright Spark, Selsey says...
8:29am Thu 17 Jul 08
Merckxy, Eastleigh says...
9:34am Thu 17 Jul 08
Veteran, Blackfield says...
9:52am Thu 17 Jul 08
CyberWarriror, so'ton says...
9:52am Thu 17 Jul 08
Duh, Southampton says...
10:11am Thu 17 Jul 08
It's about time we invested in several new prisons and started locking more people up!
George, says...
10:32am Thu 17 Jul 08
Real members of the armed services do not want scumbags fighting alongside them - they need men and women they can trust their lives with.
Very true. Maybe they've got potential as landmine detectors, cannon fodder and the like, instead
Ryan K. A., Middle-East of Europe says...
10:46am Thu 17 Jul 08
If the Gulags of Siberia were good enough for the citizens of the former Soviet Union, perhaps we should look to rent a few off Tsar Putin and send the trouble makers there, and feck prisoners rights, remember the rights of the victims, or in this case the rights the names on these memorial fought to give us.
cyberman, Southampton says...
10:53am Thu 17 Jul 08
Does Norman Brown know anything we or the police don't? What makes him think that "youngsters" carried out this vandalism?
Mark, Moscow, Russia says...
10:57am Thu 17 Jul 08
Personally, I'd like to see a Russian-style OMOH (pronounced Amon) on the streets of the UK. They take no prisoners, literally, and you're lucky to be told just once.
To the Veteran, my comment about National Service was to enlist them in the forces, before they get to become yobs, think Air/Army/Sea Cadets ... but compulsory through schools. Or the regular services could use the scumbags as target practice.
Billy Bongo, Beastleigh says...
11:24am Thu 17 Jul 08
Finlay, Des Moines, Iowa says...
11:38am Thu 17 Jul 08
Those that squinney when they get 3 months in boot camp dont realise it could well have been like that for everyone on the British Isles permanently lest these true heroes went out and sacrificed themselves, not for themselves but for everyone in Britain.
It is a miniscule debt to repay to donate care and respect to them in death. RIP (Sorry. The people of England whom you died for have let you down.... again)
Im going to throw up - This is despicable
Stuart Jebbitt, Eastleigh says...
12:27pm Thu 17 Jul 08
They don't appreciate or understand where their freedom came from...and it doesn't help that this Government is constantly eroding those freedoms and that more recent conflicts are all about oil and not freedom.
Anyway, meaningful punishment (unlikely with this current administration) AND education about the two wrold wars is needed.
(again unlikely as it's probably not PC)
Stuart Jebbitt, Eastleigh says...
12:34pm Thu 17 Jul 08
This is a feral minority and the problems begin with the total lack of parenting.
bob, Stoneham says...
2:06pm Thu 17 Jul 08
Is it too early for you wrote:Good come back Bright Spark!
Bright Spark wrote: How do they know it was youngsters? Probably was but ... anyway, let me get my hands on the vandals, I would do more than give them a bloody warning. Make them march through Eastleigh with placards saying \"We vandalised the war memorial\", then give them a bloody good kicking. That\'s what I would do.It doesnt say it was youngsters,it says it was vandels.That could be people of any agegroup!!
bob, Stoneham says...
2:07pm Thu 17 Jul 08
Bright Spark wrote:I meant this bit!
"Norman Brown, chairman of Eastleigh, Chandler's Ford and District Branch of The Royal British Legion, said: "It's disgusting that youngsters have got no respect for the ones who gave their lives so they could have their liberty." ... I rest my case, get back in your box.
Infantryman, Soton says...
5:13pm Thu 17 Jul 08
R.I.P., Southampton says...
6:34pm Thu 17 Jul 08
Mark wrote:Ditto............wel
Having emigrated to Russia, from Hampshire, last weekend I visited Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) where close to 1.5 million people were either injured or killed, (the bloodiest battle in history). The dead are remembered throughout the city in many memorials and shrines, all in an immaculate condition. What makes me angry about this report, and made me feel compelled to write, was the complete lack of respect and understanding of these youngsters. Nobody can blame this due to poverty, or that the local council don't provide facilities for the community. Volgograd is a much poorer city than anywhere in the UK. Drug and alcohol abuse are common in the city, as is organised crime, but never would anyone desecrate a memorial to the war dead. All I can say, is that I am glad to have left Britain, as it is not the country it once was. Perhaps National Service is the only option to restore law and order into British society. How those lost in war would feel about the Britain they sacrificed their lives for. We will remember them...
l said
Derek, Dibden Purlieu says...
6:42pm Thu 17 Jul 08
STOP YAPPING!!!, head in a vice says...
10:51pm Thu 17 Jul 08
Jesus
Rant over. Sorry for being off-topic, needed to vent
Bye
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6:41am Thu 17 Jul 08