Long Island Woman Upset Over Robbery Of 9/11 Husband's Grave
WESTBURY, NY (CBSNewYork) - Philomenia Mistrulli received a letter from the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury telling her the bronze vase on her husband's grave was stolen.
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Several others were also stolen, for the scrap metal.
That section of the cemetery is designated for 9/11 victims.
"They knew what they were doing. That's the 9/11 section. What they did it for probably was pennies of what it was worth," she said.
Mistrulli sat near a large photo of her late husband Joseph, who was killed on 9/11, as she told WCBS 880 reporter Sophia Hall what it has been like for her.
"To go through this, it was like opening old wounds again when I opened that letter," she said.
That's bad enough, but she is also upset over what the cemetery is planning on doing - replacing the vases with bronze-like vases.
"They are doing it to be cheap. That is exacting what they are doing," she said.
The cemetery did not return Hall's call for comment.
