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ONly when the lawyer is the butt of the joke, in which case it should be actioanble, unless it is a lawyer other than me.
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01-11-2008, 09:01 PM | #33 |
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My kids are not afraid of death or dead bodies or anything to do with the funeral business.
BTW - one of my major pet peeves is the misspelling of a burial ground. c-e-m-e-t-E-r-y, dammit.
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01-11-2008, 10:19 PM | #34 |
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I love cemeteries. My parents occasionally took us to old cemeteries in mining towns. those are really interesting. You can tell when an epidemic swept through the town. Lots of little kids buried within just a couple of months of each other. They also took us the the Salt Lake and St. George cemeteries to see where some of our relatives are buried.
The most interesting cemeteries I've been to are a cemetery I visited in Esquipulas, Guatemala Austin, Nevada (Really weird. It was a mining town, and has a huge cemetery. Because the weather is so dry that some of the wooden headstones from 1800's were still legible, kind of felt like going back in time.) National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu Hollywood Forever cemetery National cemetery in DC My dad took my brothers to the dump, he did not take his daughters. My brothers didn't seem to mind going at all. The Bean museum is a good idea too though, my parents also took us there, and before I moved I took my little brothers. They loved it. I went on a tour of the sanitation plant when I was in elementary school. It was pretty interesting. Interesting enough that I still remember going. |
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Cemeteries are history lessons of their residents, especially when you visit some of them in the old mining towns or the ghost towns of the historic west. It's amazing how much you can learn about a person's life just by reading a grave marker.
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And on that same trip we visited the US cemetery at Omaha beach in Normandy. Nothing quite compares to that.
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01-12-2008, 03:26 PM | #38 |
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My mom and sister love going to an old Mormon pioneer cemetery in Utah where the tombstones depict all kinds of top secret ("sacred") stuff from the temple. In today's context, it's as if the pioneers were unwittingly creating an anti-Mormon cemetery.
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One thing that hits me at that little military cemetary by our house is how warriors tend to live relatively short and bruthish lives even if the war doen't kill them. The ones who died in that cemetary over 60 are sparse, yet most didn't die during wars (you can tell by the dates). Most seem to have died before age 50 and many much younger. Many died within five years of major wars, which makes me wonder if they weren't serously wounded then died.
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