The Attorney General's Office is now investigating two state employees for taking home 77 gravestones from the Southern Nevada Veterans Cemetery.
Those employees admitted they turned the stones into a patio.
The investigation is now trying to decide if taking the stones is considered a crime. But now, Tami and Kevin Jenicke are taking the stones back where they belong.
The view from above their house said it all last Wednesday. Seventy-seven gravestones, memorials of the heroes who gave so much, now turned into a patio.
Tami Jenicke is a spokesperson for the state veterans home. Kevin Jenicke actually works at the cemetery. They took home stones meant for destruction. Normally spouses can be buried together and that requires replacing the current headstone.
Those old headstones ended up in the Jenickes backyard. Now, with the plan exposed, the Jenickes had to pull the stones up.
"We have to step back and say, ‘How have we failed?'" said Carole Turner with the Nevada Office of Veterans Services.
Turner is the regional boss for the Veterans Department. She says the patio is a mistake that never should have happened. "Our veterans deserve a respectful, peaceful final resting place," she said.
