Advertisement Vandals strike Anniston veteran's memorial for second time Flags were also defaced last week Share Shares Copy Link Copy

For the second time this month, vandals have struck Anniston's Centennial Memorial Park. Last week, WVTM 13's Marlei Martinez spoke with Ken Rollins after 100 small American flags were vandalized in Anniston. Rollins, with state's Board of Veterans Affairs, said it happened again. "This is hallowed ground to me, it always has been," said Rollins, who spent 12 years helping to build the memorial. "It's no different than Arlington Cemetery. The things you wouldn't do to your grandmama's grave, we shouldn't do here." Rollins was disgusted to find out the small American flags lining the park for Memorial Day were trashed once again.“I came up yesterday and they was all, no flags, no flags to be seen, just the big one flying. And all the other flags, the sticks were broken and placed in a pile. The flags nowhere to be found,” he said.This broken pile of sticks is all that's left of the American flags that were put up earlier this week. But come Memorial Day, Rollins said there will be more than 200 surrounding the park.“Memorial Day, I think you're probably going to see more flags than you ever saw. I bet you people are going to bring them with them,” Rollins said.Rollins said after the second vandalism, he's working with law enforcement to possibly install surveillance cameras. He doesn't know if he wants to catch the vandals. “I always said if I'm around someone burning the flag, I've never been arrested, I've never had any kind of ticket, that would be my time, seeing someone do that,” Rollins said. “Shame on them, whoever they are. They have no idea what they're doing. They really don't.”