Just days before Memorial Day services were to be held at the 100-year-old Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, vandals damaged the 350-foot tall monument and graves of American sailors killed in a key battle during the War of 1812.

“The vandalism is complete disrespect for three American and three British naval officers,” Maggie Beckford, a park ranger with the site tells News 5.

Vandals scaled a fence blocking access to the 352-foot Doric column memorial, which is located on an island in Lake Erie, and is undergoing repairs and renovation.

Beckford wouldn’t describe the damage that was done to the memorial that was built between 1912 and 1915, but plywood could be seen covering the doorways into the graves.

“It is an open investigation. That’s part of them trying to determine who may have done it,” Beckford says.

“They’re very good at what they do,” the ranger says of the investigators. “We are talking about top level law enforcement here. When they come in? Might as well be the FBI.”

A release from the Investigative Services Branch of the National Park Service said, “They vandalized the final resting place of Lt. John Brooks, Midshipman Henry Laub, and Midshipman John Clark.”

Memorial Day services will go on as scheduled on Monday.

The Morning Journal reports the Park Service is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest of the vandals.

Individuals with information are invited to call the ISB Tip Line at (888) 653-0009 or email nps_isb@nps.gov.

Meanwhile, police are hunting for what they think are several suspects to attacked 93 graves in Warrenton, Virginia.

Caution tape and wooden markers identified the headstones and crosses that had been damaged.

“It’s very disturbing, but more than that, it’s just sad,” Warrenton Police Chief Louis Battle tells NBC 4, adding he had never seen anything like it in his 40 years in law enforcement. “I feel for the families; I feel for the community. It’s a loss and it strikes at the heart of what this small town is about.”

“I mean, there’s better things to do in life. How did you ever think to do this?” Fauquier Historical Society Treasurer Laura Kelsey wonders. “And why did you do this? That would be my question.”

Veterans in Pennsylvania had the American flags stolen off of their graves.

The Pocono Record reports:

A man faces charges after State Police at Gettysburg say he stole two flags decorating soldiers’ graves and attempted to hitch a ride with EMS after falsely reporting being a victim of a crash.

Randy Allen Weaver, 53, with no fixed address, was charged with theft by unlawful taking, false alarm to public safety agency, intentionally receiving a veteran marker or item and false reports after the incident on Monday.

Weaver allegedly stole small flags used to decorate the graves of two Army veterans and they were found in his possession.

Police believe the flags were stolen from New Oxford Cemetery.