by Phil Johnson
July 25th, 2012
A Uriah teen was arrested for the July 17 destruction of a Vietnam veterans monument in Uriah. The monument was part of the memorial to all veterans who had served their country.
Dakota Bailey, age 18, surrendered to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office July 19. He has been charged with criminal mischief first degree, and is being held on a $100,000 bond in the Monroe County Correctional Facility.
The destruction to the monument was discovered early Wednesday morning by Albert Hollinger, the man who gave the land and headed up the drive to have it built. He was making his usual 6 a.m. trip to a local café for coffee, which took him right past the memorial park.
The park consists of a large central monument surrounded by individual monuments dedicated to the service people from the Uriah area who served in each war. When Hollinger passed by Tuesday morning, he saw that a granite sheet that contained the names of those who died in Vietnam had been pushed over and shattered.
“There are a lot of mad people in this community,” Hollinger said. “I don’t know why anyone would do this.”
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