"I was a little taken aback,'' Robert McCaffrey said, describing his reaction when he first saw the operation name on Patrick's tombstone. "They certainly didn't ask my wife; they didn't ask me.'' He said Patrick's widow told him she had not been asked either.
"In one way, I feel it's taking advantage to a small degree,'' McCaffrey said. "Patrick did not want to be there, that is a definite fact.''
The owner of the company that has been making gravestones for Arlington and other national cemeteries for nearly two decades is uncomfortable, too.
"It just seems a little brazen that that's put on stones,'' said Jeff Martell, owner of Granite Industries of Vermont. "It seems like it might be connected to politics.'' [more]
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