CBS News Article: Controversy Continues Over Former Ventura Cemetery
Now Used As Dog Park
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/24/controversy-continues-over-former-ventura-cemetery-now-used-as-dog-park/
VENTURA (CBSLA.com) — A decade’s
long controversy continued Wednesday over whether a former cemetery in Ventura should remain a dog park.
St. Mary’s Cemetery, located between Main and Poli streets, was turned into a recreational space in the mid-1960s.
The city removed the tombstones, but the nearly 3,000 bodies that were buried there remained at the grave site.
FOX News Article: Veterans Outraged
After Army Hero's Grave Site Turned Into Dog Park
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/16/veterans-outraged-army-heros-grave-site-turned-dog-park/
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.