SEQUIM — Angela Walsh didn’t need a calendar to tell her Wednesday’s date.
For the past two years, Walsh has dreaded Aug. 20 — just as she will, she says, for the rest of her life.
Walsh’s 24-year-old son, Aaron Eaton, was killed in a car crash on Aug. 20, 2001.
On Wednesday, she fixed a cup of tea and wandered out to her backyard garden to “contemplate,” she said, and spend time at a memorial site she set up a year ago to honor Aaron.
But this day, something was different: A piece of Aaron’s memorial was missing.
“I stopped and looked, and I immediately knew it was gone,” Walsh said.
Someone stole a wind diva — a spiral-shaped acrylic piece hanging from a potted plant, which is attached to a trellis.
And Walsh wants to know why.
“I was disgusted that someone would do something like that,” she said. “It’s obvious that it was part of a memorial.”
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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.