A statue representing service members in Veterans Plaza at Teague Park in Longview has been destroyed.

Air Force veteran David Applewhite of Gladewater, who is involved with the Veterans Recognition Foundation, posted a photo on his Facebook page of the overturned statue.

"One of the statues guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier monument has been pushed over by vandals at the Veterans Plaza in Longview," Applewhite wrote. "Was not young children who did this."

Officials with the group who oversees the plaza later said the destroyed statue is not that of the Unknown Soldier, but that it represents every service member.

The veterans plaza, which was officially dedicated in November 2015, holds permanent markers for each American war since World War I.


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