Removed items from Sara Beth's grave & mom on TV

Hi ya everybody.
Excuse me for writing in a shade of red, but I am as mad as hell ,still am right now. Just read yesterday in the local newspaper. The people who own Forest Park Cemetery decided to do some "cleaning" over some 50,000 graves. Anything that didn't meet their requirements were to be removed. They removed flowers,vases,ceramic figures,religious items like statues of saints, the Virgin Mary,crucifixes and other precious items from grave sites. All the items are now sitting by a dump that's near the cemetery. The cemetery owns the dumpster. That's were people are going to try to find their loved ones items that they had placed on their graves. They didn't bother to put a ad saying your stuff at your loved ones grave might not meet the requirements. People would have gladly come and got the items. The owner Lomison issued an apology letter in the editorial page of the newspaper for the "spring" cleaning. Like a lot of people are saying they want more then just a I'm sorry for what happened. He also said "There was a disconnect between management and ground staff." "Some items were removed that should have remained." I like to know WHAT they think should and shouldn't have been removed.

My little sister Sara Beth Murray(her middle name was Elizabeth,but her nickname was Sara Beth) who died when she was just 7 months old on Jan 6, 1994. She died right in my mom's arms when mom was rushing her back up to the hospital. Sara Beth is buried in Forest Park Cemetery. It's a very beautiful cemetery I don't know what the owner was thinking about it needing to be cleaned. The grounds keepers are always trying there best at keeping it nice,although they need to address the issue of water. Sometimes you go there and the water doesn't work.

Me and mom went out there as soon as we read the paper and it just looked liked everything had been striped bare from the graves. The hardest part was going to Sara Beth's grave. We just broke down in tears in front of her grave. I'm even having a hard time as I'm writing this I'm staring to cry some more. So please forgive me if some words aren't typed right. They had took ALL the items we had left for her! The flowers, tiny toys we had just a few,a large pinwheel you could always see it blowing in the wind from the road. We've had that pinwheel out there for 10 years nobody has ever said we couldn't have it there. The hardest one for mom was she had dug a small hole very close to the grave(so the statue wouldn't get blown over in high winds)for this cute little stone statue that had a girl and boy holding hands like they were dancing on a cloud. Mom bought it at a yard sale because it looked like the children were dancing in heaven. There were fake flower pieces from Sara Beths flowers around her gave. Mom told me to just bring them with us. But I couldn't stand sight of seeing her grave empty and bare. I couldn't just leave it that way and I put the 3 flowers I found in the vase that was a part of the headstone. Then as we past another grave there were fake flower pieces by the grave I picked them up and put them on a place on the grave were they wouldn't get blown away.

Just as we were about to leave a car from a local news station (it was from KTBS 3 news) came driving up. A woman was covering the story for the station. At first mom wasn't going to stay. But haven't you ever felt like you should be where you're at that very moment for some strange reason. It was like God put us there for this reason. Because nobody else was in the cemetery,but me and mom. The woman's name was Crissi she asked mom if she'd do a interview for TV. At first I didn't know if mom would being a little camera shy,but she did. I made sure I stayed out of the way because I'm VERY camera shy and I know I couldn't have done this. Not just because I'm shy,but I'd be way too emotional about this subject. I'd start talking and then the tears would be flowing. Tears were just pouring from my eyes while I listened to mom talking in the interview. I could tell that Crissi had empathy for my mom. I don't think Crissi has lost a loved one,but she could understand my mom's feelings. The interview came on TV last night at 6:00 pm. I'm very proud of my mom doing this interview.