One of the principles of Ingsoc. Orwell would be pleased.
In my opinion simply changing the headstone is vandalism in and of itself. It should be considered an irreplaceable War Grave.
Changing the words is another whole level of desecration. Gibson was not known for his enjoyment of fools and I could well imagine his thoughts at such an outrage. Has anyone thought of that? It was his dog, his name was immortalised with a specific historical significance and now we whitewash it? (pun intended).
This is akin to removing the names of all previous Prime Ministers because like the Egyptians there surely can only be one leader. Where is this complete nonsense going to stop???
Not in official records or historical books but where it might seen in public.
Aren't records public? If you can't see something what's the point?
Whilst on the subject, perhaps we should get rid of all Roman history, aqueducts, Coliseum, in fact, level Rome (I know a good code word when it's done) most of Greece, the Pyramids, Bath, dig up and remove all stonework under almost every road in Europe....