Oldest West Coast Military Cemetery Falling Apart
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A naval cemetery in Vallejo is in bad shape, and a local veteran is working with two others to get lawmakers to clean it up.
It’s tucked away behind closed gates in Vallejo, and is the oldest military cemetery on the West Coast dating back to 1858.
“There are walls that are crumbling, there are tombstones that are down, fallen broken,” said retired Navy Lt. Bob Willey of Loomis. “I was disgusted.”
Willey recently visited the site and had t
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