It’s too bad that it’s illegal to shoot the bastards who did this:

A gasp of disbelief, a sad shake of the head and a feeling of general disgust.

That’s how San Marcos residents reacted Saturday morning at the sight of graffiti spray-painted on the still under construction Hays County Veterans Memorial.

Sometime overnight, someone used yellow spray paint to write “Kill Bush” on a section of the memorial where names of local veterans are displayed on a sloping wall. The same slogan, along with others, was repeated on the back of the memorial.

“It’s very disgusting,” said Robert Guerrero, who served in Germany during the Vietnam era. “I have a lot of friends right there who gave their lives for this country,” he added, pointing to the portion of the monument where the names of soldiers killed in action – which wasn’t vandalized – are displayed. “It’s just disgusting.”

Comments of some others who stopped by the memorial Saturday morning are unfit for publishing in a family newspaper.

This memorial is being funded through donations and it isn’t yet finished.

Donations to help complete the marker can still be made, and are indeed more crucial now as clean-up will add to the overall cost. Contributions can be mailed to: Hays County Veterans Memorial, P.O. Box 1503, San Marcos, TX, 78667-1503.

For general information, visit www.sanmarcos.net/veteransmemorial or contact Cruz at (512) 245-2502 or (512) 393-8400.

My online bill payment service will send a check in the mail on my behalf, which makes this as simple as entering their name and address and entering an amount, so I sent them a few dollars to help them along.