I cannot thank you enough for your help with the cemetery desecration problem here in Milwaukee. The county was flooded with e-mails. The newspapers wrote about it and one TV station did a very nice interview at the cemetery with some of the ladies from our group. They showed one of the ladies' young son placing flowers on one of the few tombstones as the Reporter spoke about our protest.

The interview was short and much was edited but it was nice and it did the job. People responded very well to it.

The Milwaukee County at first tried to say they had no immediate plans to move the cemetery and that it would be at least 3 years before action was taken, but this fooled very few. Our lady that attended the open forum had discussions with the man who is pushing this and she knows what she heard.

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I want your readers to know that there are two people currently transcribing the records of this cemetery. One lady is transcribing from Microfiche and I am working with photocopies of the original registers. I paid for these myself rather than create any problems. Both of us are going to place them on the Internet so the chances of them being found will be high. The county cannot destroy their names. This seemed to be a priority issue in many of the protests.

I am trying to respond to each person who copied me on their messages to the Board but this may take some time, so I wish to give each a "Thank You!" and ask that they may be blessed with successful research.

Evelyn closed her message with a great quote:

"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals." — William Gladstone

You can contact Evelyn Oliveras directly at MissEv1017@aol.com