The Lake County Council is poised to increase the county’s allowance for veteran’s grave markers at its Tuesday meeting.

When Grave Markers Are Stolen, He Speaks for the Dead To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something about it.

James Phillips Jr., the co-founder of Remember Veteran Grave Markers Incorporated, is a one-man band that has cleaned hundreds of veterans’ gravestones over the past two years.