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An Iraq War veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone has been removed from her final resting place because officials at the historic Cincinnati cemetery deemed it inappropriate for their ...

An Iraq war veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone has been removed from her final resting place because officials at the historic Cincinnati cemetery deemed it inappropriate for their ...

A Cincinnati-area cemetery has removed two large SpongeBob SquarePants-themed headstones after approving them for a slain soldier’s plot, leading to a dispute between the family and the contrite ...