There isn’t a Good Word to be said this week.

I’m angry – downright mad – and disgusted with those who recently climbed on their snowmobiles and plowed through the Windham Veterans Park, knocking down memorials to our veterans.

Town park planners take heed – fortunately the proposed community park is within earshot of the police so maybe that park will not be as vulnerable, but for the Windham veterans, having a place of sanctuary tucked away in a quiet spot is irresistible to those who like to destroy things in a secret way.

After watching the most recent news from Iraq and listening to the daily count of soldiers killed, someone told me that here in our town, thoughtless people had once again vandalized our own Windham Veterans Center. On snowmobiles they came, driving through the park, knocking over the granite memorial benches, dedicated to our own Windham soldiers.

Not for the life of me can I understand why anyone would do such a thing. We never see this kind of person helping build anything, but if they can’t help, why would they destroy what others have so generously done?

What possible satisfaction could anyone get from such activity? Who are these people who get enjoyment out of desecrating a place which memorializes fallen soldiers who fought for the freedom of all of us.

Those who roared through Windham Veterans Center on their snowmobiles, toppling memorials and trashing everything in their path want the world to know how powerful they are and the damage they can do, so let’s give them the publicity they deserve. In fact, it’s too bad we don’t have video cameras in place to memorialize their heroic feats forever.

Perhaps we could get their names in the paper and everyone would know about their antics.

People who knock over and break gravestones in out-of-the-way cemeteries and those who drive snow machines through a memorial to veterans have a lot in common. They have no respect, and they’re desperate for attention.

Desecrating memorials to soldiers seems to me to be a pitiful way to get attention.

And to think that someone – perhaps someone from Windham, one of your neighbors, one of your friends – is actually laying their life on the line, protecting all of us, including these thoughtless vandals.