Veteran Who Funded 9-11 Monument Says Vandalism Disgraceful

Veteran Who Funded 9-11 Monument Says Vandalism Disgraceful
KATC News
by Erin Steuber
Posted: Sep 11, 2013

As Americans around the country, and the world, paused to remember September 11th, a startling find in Lafayette. 35-year-old Salvador Perez is facing charges of criminal damage to a historic building, or landmark, and criminal trespassing. If convicted, he faces a fine up to one-thousand dollars, and two years in jail.

This is what he's accused of doing to the monument:

Police were called there early this morning to find two cardboard planes on the beams from the Twin Towers. There was also a cardboard cutout of former President George W. Bush, holding money and what appeared to be a remote. And on a nearby building, a drawing of a sniper, aiming at the monument.

It's a story that's receiving some national attention, not just because of when it happened, but where.

It was one year after the attacks, that the monument was put up in Lafayette. The beams, from the Twin Towers in New York; The dirt, from that field in Pennsylvania and the limestone is from the Pentagon. It is in every way a true representation of a national tragedy and that's why some say what happened is so disrespectful.
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