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August 16, 2010

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In this undated photo, a couple walks their dog at Memorial Park on East Main Street and Aliso Lane in Ventura, Calif., where several flat headstones dot the terrain including that of James Sumner. The United Sates Cavalry soldier born in 1840, fought in the Indian Wars and was awarded the Medal of Honor before his death in 1912. A retired Marine sergeant would like the body exhumed and transported to Bakersfield to more hallowed ground. (AP Photo/The Ventura County Star, Karen Quincy Loberg) ** LA TIMES OUT. LA DAILY NEWS



VENTURA, Calif. – The grave site for an 1860s Army hero awarded the Medal of Honor is now a popular Ventura dog park with poop soiling what veterans say should be sacred ground.

"Talk to any veteran, he will tell you it is a terrible thing. It's disrespectful," said retired Marine Sgt. Craig "Gunny" Donor, who served two tours in Vietnam and is bent on getting the soldier's remains moved.

Pvt. James Sumner, who was awarded the nation's highest military honor for gallant actions after a band of Apache Indians kidnapped a settler's child, died in 1912 and he was buried in what was then St. Mary's Cemetery.

Most of the flat grave markers have been hauled away, but a few dozen markers still pepper the 7-acre Cemetery Memorial Park that was home to about 3,000 permanent residents. Most were never relocated.

The lush, well-manicured hillside patch of green on Main Street just a few blocks east of downtown Ventura has pine, thickets of overgrown junipers and a magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean and Ventura Pier.
It's a beautiful memorial park, a different kind of park because living people come to have fun. I would think those buried here would like that," said Jessi Burt, a 24-year-old park neighbor walking her boxer Ally.

Others jogging with dogs in the park say pet owners are good about cleaning up after the animals.

"The people who use the park are the most reverent, in my opinion. Sometimes, people will come up and pick up my dog's poop before I have a chance," said Beverly Karbum, 58, who was walking her Australian shepherd Roxanne.

Army records show Sumner was a 28-year-old immigrant from London who led the 1869 chase after the kidnapped child into a remote canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona. There was an ambush and a fierce firefight, but Sumner held off attackers until reinforcements arrived. Records don't indicate what happened to the child.

President Ulysses S. Grant awarded Sumner the Medal of Honor in 1870. Donor believes the medal is buried with him.

Sumner died in 1912 at age 72. He never married and there are no heirs, Donor said.
"I'm trying to get him moved to Bakersfield National Cemetery. He needs to be moved to a place of respect. Cemeteries are solemn places," said Donor.

But Ventura leaders have so far balked at moving Sumner.

"We are treating him pretty darn well, except for the poop," parks and recreation commissioner Sharon Troll told the Ventura County Star.

The commission voted July 21 to postpone for two months Donor's request to unearth Sumner.
Park commissioners have told Donor they're committed to a long-delayed effort to commemorate the area pioneers and military dead in the park.

But Donor, who lives in Fontana and is a state captain for the Patriot Guard Riders, a motorcycle club that honors fallen veterans, isn't convinced. He expects the fight to wind up in court.

"He has no family, no one else to stand up for him, except for his brothers and sister in arms," Donor said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010...ark/?test=latestnews



Typhoon if you want to get mad about something other than the Mosque in Ny than get mad about this disgrace.

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Posted 19 August 2010 09:40   Hide PostReply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post 
He should be moved to a National Cemetery and be re-buried with full honors!

This should not be up for debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...ner_(Medal_of_Honor)

http://www.homeofheroes.com/gr...sumner_james_ca.html


The commission voted unanimously to postpone Donor’s request, which arrived last October, for two more months to allow further research into how to handle such requests.

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Hmmmm, Perhaps a call out to the Marines down at Pendleton would help. Dispatch a convoy of Marines with the mission to go an exhume and reintern him in more appropriate place of honor.


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I'm really glad about that.

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AND from then on, I'm probably going to need a lot of your help.

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'Indian War' MOHs list.

http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html


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Excellent link, Weatherman...further research inspired. Thank you.
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Coachman, of course I am ticked-off. I think the soldiers should all be placed where they are wanted and respected. The present community is more concerned with stupidity so they deserve their little world of doggy poop ville. I see he fought Indians so I am sure some jerks are running about with the " Evil European " junk.
Don't expect Obama to get involved.
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The City Manager of San Buenaventura, CA, is running around the country trying to do damage control on one of the worst mass grave desecrations in the history of our country.
All headstones (600) were removed from the 3,000 local American pioneer graves and thrown off a cliff up in the hills by the City. The cemetery was then called a "passive park." (?).
"They forgot to remove the bodies!"

If you were to remove all the headstones and flush markers from the graves at any cemetery, would it not be a cemetery? In a cemetery, people are buried in the ground.

St. Mary's, Presbyterian and the Hebrew cemeteries are now a 'dog' park because the City has made it so and after repeated requests, have refused to do anything to enforce the dog 'leash' problem let alone even consider the two organized attempts by the local pioneer descendants to restore the cemetery, and to abid by all state and federal cemetery law.

When 150 year old local pioneer graves can have their headstones stolen by the City and ok'ed by the same City Council, you have to realize that the scum in our society has risen to the top and now calls themselves the our elected leaders.

The City was charged to the upkeep of the cemetery and stopped maintenance to merit the coming mass grave desecration. It is against the law what the City did. We have 81 total veterans from the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish American War and WWI buried here, amongst the 3,000 civilian graves, not just one MoH recipient.

....The City of Ventura got so bold at grave desecration, they exported their talent to the City of Whittier, CA and their Mt. Olive Quaker and Broadway Cemeteries, renamed Founder's 'Memorial' Park with it's now 2,380 desecrated graves (about 65 veterans desecrated graves). Another dog park: http://tinyurl.com/yzp4gb7

And as soon as they could, they went down to the Calvary Catholic Cemetery at the invite of the City of San Diego, CA and with the help of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Diego desecrated another 4,000 known graves there: http://tinyurl.com/dypxxn
65+veterans in desecrated graves: http://freepages.genealogy.roo...Calvary/Veterans.htm

If you include the 3,850 desecrated graves beneath the Holy Cross School next to the San Buenaventura (Ventura) Mission on Main St.(just dumb old native American graves), the City of Ventura has their desecration fingerprints on a whooping total of 13,230 desecrated graves throughout Southern California.

These were tired and war torn Americans mostly, leaving behind the horrors of the Civil War and moving to California for a fresh start and a better life.

Little did they dream that their very graves would be hunted down by the City of Ventura and robbed of all dignity and respect.

There are 3 city governments and 2 Catholic Archdioceses, here in California, that DO NOT want anyone to know what has happened to our pioneer Americans and their graves.

For those of you active or retired that would like to join in on the cemetery restoration cause please see contacts:

http://restorestmarys.org/Contact_us.html

www.restorestmarys.org

http://www.facebook.com/#!/gro...7281390633742&ref=ts
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*sighs* I am speechless... Truly speechless, indeed! FrownerFrownerFrownerFrowner


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I saw the 'removal' of dis-interred Confederate Soldiers along with cemetery sections of lessor respected remains at Dallas when they put up the Convention Center. Some of the more elaborate stonework of the wealthier still exists.

Those 'moved' to somewhere was a sight that I'll never forget. Far more morbid than anything
the Stephen Kings...Anne Rices or exploitation films ever evoked aside from a few 'snuff flicks' I regret watching. Made even combat look civil...as Ernie Pyle once said "A Man only falls dead once."

The process of digging up these remains could not be noble-ized as anthropological grave robbing Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones types.

No this was urban progress and that once Hallowed Ground was suddenly a valuable piece of real estate with only the unkempt and weedy
eye sore a reminder of those given a Burial
standing in the way of the living mindful of
removing the remains of the dead instead of just paving the place over (extensive excavation was required)

If one could imagine hundred year old busted cutoff liquid leaking coffins stacked on flatbed trailers and worse accomplished during the cover of darkness like the ghouls of municipal and corporate nightmare progress loving community leaders they were.

The depraved indifference in conduct could only be described as heinous horror.

I'm sorry that these cultural practices exist.

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I remember a cemetary is PA that got moved to a bigger piece of land, and allow a road to be built, but this is a whole other ball park.


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quote:
a whole other ball park.



In this case it's a dog park for
MOH winner Pvt. James Sumner...and some 3K others...

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quote:
Originally posted by Weatherman1956:
quote:
a whole other ball park.



In this case it's a dog park for
MOH winner Pvt. James Sumner...and some 3K others...

Frowner


*sighs* Indeed, Weatherman. I know that I will never take my dog to that park as a personal protest, and out of respect for the soldiers burried there. I would instead take flowers to it, and give my salute to this fallen soldier, and all others burried there. I suggest we all do, and possibly with help start a Facebook petion? :salutes:


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quote:
Others jogging with dogs in the park say pet owners are good about cleaning up after the animals.


I would also like to make mention this is the most ignorant statement in the article. That is NOT the point of our anger. That is like someone taking a crap, or piss on my husband, then cleaning him off going "I cleaned it off, what?" Roll Eyes


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