A few years ago there was a minor scandal around here when it came to light that Fort Snelling National Cemetery was disposing of its broken or spoiled (carved with misspellings, etc.) tombstones by selling them to a dealer in ornamental stone, and they were ending up in people's gardens.

It came to light when someone bought a house that already had one of these stones being used, face down, as a paving stone. The homeowner turned it over, discovered the inscription, got curious about it, and contacted a newspaper.

When the story came out, of course some people claimed that it was sacrilegious, disrespectful to soldiers, etc., so the cemetery had to stop the practice.

A tempest in a teapot, if you ask me.