Frank Vaisvilas
It’s not likely that New Lenox’s veterans memorial will be vandalized again, now that it sits directly across from the police station with security cameras monitoring the area.
The station was under construction on Sept. 27, 2014 when a homeless man destroyed much of the monument, police said.
Local officials and veterans groups held a rededication ceremony for the reconstructed monument on Saturday at the Village Commons on Veterans Parkway south of U.S. 30.
“It was disheartening to see such disrespect for those who put their lives on the line for our country,” U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-11th, told the crowd.
But he said that feeling was quickly overshadowed by the community coming together and raising money to build a new and better memorial.
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