Grave decorations disturbed at Coeur d'Alene cemetery

When Linda Whitehead visited her parents’ grave in Forest Cemetery one Sunday in July, she found the red, white and blue silk flowers she’d previously put in vases scattered on the grass, along with the miniature American flags she’d placed. She poured out the sprinkler water that had accumulated in the vases — and was shocked when chicken bones and pieces of meat fell out, too. Somebody had stuffed the waste inside the vases. “I was appalled, especially that anyone would throw an American flag on the ground,” Whitehead said.