UNITY — Alnetta Levesque has lived in Unity 45 years and never seen anything like the damage done at Quaker Hill Cemetery and the nearby church on Quaker Hill Road.

Stones are tipped over, markers broken, flowers and pots strewn all over the cemetery — and American flags pulled out of their stands.

"Some stones have been picked up and thrown," said Levesque, 67. "It's terrible, and all the veterans' graves have been tipped over or destroyed. Some of the stones were made of metal and those were totally destroyed and they can not be replaced."

Levesque said 49 stones were damaged or broken. She was heartbroken and angry when she saw her relatives' graves around 2 p.m. Tuesday, about a half-hour after a resident called state police to report the vandalism.

"My grandfather, my grandmother, two uncles and an aunt, my mother and two brothers — they're all buried there," Levesque said. "They (vandals) have hurt a lot of people. "If it's kids, I say give ‘em a backpack and drop ‘em on Baghdad and see how they like it."

To add insult to injury, the vandal or vandals broke a window of the Quaker Hill Christian Church and wreaked havoc inside, according to Leroy Hunter, a church deacon and longtime church member.

"They went into the basement and supply room and opened a can of white paint and painted all the cupboards and floors, broke glassware in the basement," said Hunter, 89, a World War II veteran. "Upstairs, they wrote graffiti on all the walls and there's words we don't want to talk about."