The Legacy of Love monument, located at the intersection of Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road and dedicated to the memory of those who have died of AIDS, was defaced by vandals sometime early Sunday morning, according to reports. Someone used red spray paint to mark the base of the monument with the numbers “666,” a number commonly considered to be the “mark of the beast,” or Satan.
A group of volunteers from the community turned out Sunday afternoon to clean the graffiti off the monument.
The 35-foot-tall monument, maintained by the Oak Lawn Committee, which has spent more than $15,000 in recent years to repair damages to the monument after it was damaged in car crashes.
