The memorial, a part of the Young America’s Foundation 9/11: Never Forget Project, consisted of 2,997 small American flags planted in the ground in honor of the lives lost on September 11.
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Officials at Occidental College in Los Angeles are investigating the vandalism of a student group’s 9/11 memorial in which almost 3,000 US flags were uprooted and trashed.
The “Oxy Republicans” went back out to the memorial overnight, replacing the flags only to have some of them pulled back out of the ground by a group of people who fled after they were caught.
One photo shows a message taped to a wall that read “R.I.P. the 2,996 Americans who died in 9/11”.
The post continued: “Not only did they destroy the memorial, they put posters and flyers up that shamed the victims of 9/11”.
Members of the Occidental College Republican Club said they discovered the destruction early Sunday along with fliers that criticized the USA war with Iraq.
But the vandals returned the following day, kicking over and crushing hundreds of flags and putting some back in the trashcans they had just been fished out of.
Four Occidental students came up and snapped a few flags right in our faces.
According to a post on the group’s Facebook page, the memorial was dismantled overnight Saturday. “When we confronted them, those cowards got away as fast as they possibly could”.
In an email obtained by The College Fix, acting dean of students Erica O’Neal Howard addressed the Occidental community on the acts of vandalism.
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The Los Angeles Daily News reported that the college plans to discipline whoever is responsible.
