[RACooper]

As I promised here's what happened at court...

Well turns out the kids have been in trouble with the law before: seems they like defacing public buildings too. They were found guilty pretty fast (30 min), but most of the legal wrangling had to do with sentancing.

The prosecution submitted a sentancing recommendation, that stated 2 hours a week at the Legion helping and learning from the vets for 1 1/2 years plus cleaning and payment for repairs to monuments.

The judge had her own ideas, threaten them with either juvenile detention or joining Cadets until they turned 18... kids took the Cadet option. As they were considered a problem as a group, they were each required to join a different branch (Army, Navy, Airforce)... and of course they must clean-up the memorials they vandalized.

Not what was envisaged, but achieves roughly the ame results....