We thought we wrote about this already a month ago when a VA cemetery worker was busted for stealing veterans headstones and using them to pave his driveway. To our horror, another individual in a completely different state had the same horrid landscaping idea.

Navy veteran Ed Harkreader of Arkansas was appalled when a friend told him of a property north of the Missouri-Arkansas line that had a patio and staircase constructed entirely out of veteran grave markers. After reaching out to his congressmen and sheriff to no avail, Harkreader shared photographs of the patio on Facebook in order get the public’s help in finding the perpetrator and righting this egregious wrong.

“This isn’t the way you should use military headstones,” Harkreader said. “This is disrespectful of military veterans.”

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Harkreader’s photo album also included many close ups of the headstones, including many that are relatively new. Some death dates are as recent as the 2000s. The album was shared on Facebook nearly 50,000 times before it caught the eye of the National Cemetery Administration.

The property owner hasn’t been found or identified. The names on the stones were for grave sites in California, Alabama and Texas, but it’s a mystery how they made it to Missouri.

The NCA said that military headstones are replaced if they are damaged, contain a typo or require an additional inscription. Old or incorrect headstones are destroyed, not used as “any kind of home improvement project.” Even so, it is possible that the dark mind behind this travesty somehow acquired old headstones and had them shipped to Missouri.

Another theory is that these headstones are decorative replicas, though why anyone would turn a real person’s grave into a product they can sell or use as patio building blocks is beyond us.

Update: The person who made the patio is not only the son of a veteran, but also mentally disabled. Given that the individual didn’t understand what the stones meant, we edited our headline to be less accusatory. We will post a full update in a separate article.