Missing Emmanuel K. Morries, seeking justice

We miss dearly my love, Emmanuel K. Morries, who will forever remain in our hearts!

To the killer and/or killers, if you help plan it you are just as guilty as the people that did it. No one deserves to be brutally murdered and left on the side of the road the way my husband, Emmanuel, only 38 years old, was on July 7, 2017.

All lives have value. No family should have to deal with such heartache.

Emmanuel “Gator” was such a loving, caring, great husband and father. I am still praying for justice because we deserve it! Justice does have a voice, if anyone knows anything please speak up! It’s been seven long months and still no justice!

No one should have to go through so much pain and I pray that the killer is brought to justice soon and may God have no mercy on your soul! Emmanuel was loved by so many people and so many of us are still grieving.

 

Rochelle Morries and family

Preston, Kemper County

Lost forefathers at Gettysburg

What if trees were permitted to grow through your grandfather’s headstone and through his coffin? What if his cemetery encouraged visitors to play Pokemon, the computer “ghost chasing” game, over his grave? What if his headstone needed to be replaced and the cemetery refused to inscribe it with his identification? What if the cemetery outright lost his burial site? These are the actions of the National Park Service at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Gettysburg is like your community that saw a major Civil War battle fought near it. At Gettysburg, about 7,100 were killed and 10,800 were missing on both sides. On Cemetery Hill, about 3,500 soliders were buried from the Civil War with over 1,500 unknowns. Originally thought to be only Unioin soliders, over time analysis has proven at least eight Confederate soldiers are buried there.

To resolve these issues, several Freedom of Information Act requests were made by members of the Gettysburg Veterans of Foreign Wars in the past six years. The National Park Service, entrusted with the care of these American dead, does not know how many remains exist. As many as 101 soldiers have been “lost.” Admitting to “so many discrepancies in the paperwork that this is the best we can tell you,” the park service has lost accountability. Further, they refuse to correct their desecrations. Trees are growing on top of the headstones. They still promote Pokemon playing over the dead. Lastly 14 soliders’ graves go unmarked.

This treatment is uncaring and disrespectful. Only the Department of the Interior can be relied on to fix them.

These remains may be your great grandfather.

LTC William D. Hewitt, USA (Ret)

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania