Forgotten headstones?

with the trash behind some shed? that’s what one las cruces woman says she found at the masonic cemetery. open abc-7 listens – and jamie warren got some answers today. jamie? rick and estela, this is a very emotional subject. the headstones of fallen war veterans dumped behind this shed for all to see. but the cemetery’s manager tells us it’s all a big misunderstanding: sot 6:00:16 lisa cartees “how could someone be so disrespectful to someone who gave their life for our country? who went out and didn’t think twice about fighting for our freedom and our rights. and now they’re just being disrespected and thrown to the side?” lisa cartees’s father is buried at masonic cemetery. but she says the site she walks by to visit his grave is unsettling. numerous headstones of fallen soldiers seem to be forgotten, piled up behind this shed sot 5:59:51 lisa we called a couple times to the office no one answered then, during our interview the cemetery’s manager showed up to explain. nats: how can i make you happy? clean that up, clean that up and emotions started flowing. sot 6:09:02 peggy “this is our mistake but it doe not come out of any kind of disrespect.” peggy wood tells us when the cemetery got the headstones from the va they had typos and misspellings. she says the va didn’t want them back and she doesn’t know what to do with them. 6:08:47 peggy ” if we were more put together, if this was the only thing on our list, we would have a nice little shed and put all the mistakes in and they would pile up and they would pile up and they would be unseen. this is our mistake. she said the proper headstones have been replaced. when we checked, sure enough they were. wood vowed to clean up the mess, then a hug between the two women peggy 6:30:39 there’s no way anyone can make up to you your loss wood has an emergency number on the front door of the office. she says it’s and if anyone has any concerns to call it. jw, abc-7 looking ahead to our later report…