Legacy of Love monument, nearby light pole again struck by vandal
dallasvoice.comThe Oak Lawn Committee is looking for donations to help clean up the Legacy of Love Monument following recent incidents in which someone has written derogatory and threatening messages on the monument itself and on a nearby light pole in the corner of the traffic island on which the monument is located at the intersection of Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road. “Someone has again vandalized and added more writing on the Legacy of Love Monument,” OLC volunteer Adam Murphy wrote in a post on the Friends of Oak Lawn Facebook page. “They’ve also added some hate speech comments on the traffic light pole on the island.
Police have been notified.” The first incident happened earlier this month, around June 13, when someone scrawled barely legible “slogans” on the base of the monument, including “Code Red.
Crimes against humanity” and “Decla war wit Dallas police” and “Arsones-cases intentioly seting families on fire.” In this most recent vandalism attack, the graffiti include “Bomb Mexico City,” “Inocent people have II die II kill purgery Kill” and “They in Texas place wax figures of patints who are held hostage and potray scenes of death.” There are more threatening messages as well: “Take police officers family hostage” and, on the light pole, “Start killing fagets on Ceader Springs.” Which much of the graffiti is scrawled in black marker, broad, neatly-printed letters in what looks like white paint on the bricks surrounding the monument read “THE CHURCH OF BREAD OF LIFE.” Murphy noted that the monument is made of a special type of limestone that requires a specific cleaning treatment, and that attempting to use other cleaning methods can seriously damage the stone. “We are making an effort to clean it off tomorrow,” he
