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re: Do you like visiting cemeteries? There are so many thoughts
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:22 am to George Dickel
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:22 am to George Dickel
quote:decompose into ashes?
your remains eventually decompose into ashes…. like cremation.
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Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:43 am to weagle99
I used to park in cemeteries and screw girls as a teenager.
You should be able to rent an hourly motel room at 18 btw
You should be able to rent an hourly motel room at 18 btw
Posted on 2/13/22 at 7:27 am to GreenRockTiger
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indoor heating and a/c now and gmo potatoes that don’t rot’
Lol. That would be funny to go to cemeteries in Ireland and laf at all the ded peeps and let them know how easy it is to get potatoes these days.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 7:50 am to weagle99
People years ago didn't gossip. Too busy working and living.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 8:06 am to kywildcatfanone
The Normandy American Cemetery (seen in Saving Private Ryan) makes a lasting impression. See it. Take the kids.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 8:48 am to jamiegla1
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I really like seeing the old cemeteries. The graves are so modest. Not too ornate. People just lived their lives and died.
Some of them are pretty ornate. Can you imagine the time and skill it took to make a headstone like this. The letters and design are raised. Lot of material would have to be removed to do that.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 8:56 am to weagle99
We did a roof job one time in upstate NY. We could overlook the graveyard all day while hanging on to the roofs steep pitch. I spent some lunch time looking over the grave stones. So many older ones like 18th century. Many young women with the same husbands all dying young. Very remindful how precarious child birth was back then.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 9:57 am to weagle99
I've found myself walking through the cemeteries near my house from time to time. I live off Banks St. in Mid-City near the end where it runs into the railroad tracks by the interstate.
Tons of old graves in there and the cemeteries that are sandwiched between the exit at Metairie Rd. have tons of beautiful marble statues and carvings adorning many of their crypts.
I also hit one of the cemeteries at the end of Canal St. where it jogs off to Canal Blvd. The grass cutters in there bag their grass clippings and I'll go in there and fill my truck bed with the bags to use in my garden. The place is huge and laid out like a damn city plot with many roads and crossroads in it.
Tons of old graves in there and the cemeteries that are sandwiched between the exit at Metairie Rd. have tons of beautiful marble statues and carvings adorning many of their crypts.
I also hit one of the cemeteries at the end of Canal St. where it jogs off to Canal Blvd. The grass cutters in there bag their grass clippings and I'll go in there and fill my truck bed with the bags to use in my garden. The place is huge and laid out like a damn city plot with many roads and crossroads in it.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 10:16 am to weagle99
Posted on 2/13/22 at 10:20 am to Zappas Stache
quote:Are you also a Mix-A-Lot?
I once stood amongst 200 headstones and they all had my sir name.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 10:39 am to weagle99
Very relaxing
Especially on a beautiful cool & crisp Fall day
Especially on a beautiful cool & crisp Fall day
Posted on 2/13/22 at 10:41 am to weagle99
Askidswe did play hide n seek in our hometown one.. Used to call it ghosts in the graveyards. Pretty dumb but we were barely teenagers
Posted on 2/13/22 at 10:53 am to KurtSchrute
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In a former life I used to mow the grass and trim around the tombstones of a local cemetery. Calculating how long people lived kept my math skills sharp, but the reality that some punk kid would one day be calculating my age as he cut the grass - it's just too much. Way too depressing.
Did you keep a small potato or onion in your pocket?
Posted on 2/13/22 at 11:11 am to weagle99
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Especially old cemeteries.
I used to like walking through a very old cemetery in a small southern town where I lived. It had a famous author, a well known train robber, soldiers from wars going back to the revolution, lots of family names of local people I knew. It was a slice of history that was very interesting.
More modern cemeteries - not so much. I've never been back to any that have relatives buried in them. I just don't like the feeling. My parents are the same and will be cremated, as will I.
quote:
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they rob me
Of my childhood souvenirs
John Prine
Posted on 2/13/22 at 11:12 am to weagle99
I too like to visit old cemeteries. Every cemetery usually has one or two grave markers that are a good bit larger and more ornate than the others. I like to research the name on that marker, because it usually a leader in the community or some prominent merchant.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 11:45 am to Spankum
I visited Lorraine American Cemetery in St Avold, France near the German border today. It contains the largest number of US military graves of World War II in Europe, a total of 10,481. I try to visit anytime we are near one of the war cemeteries. 
Posted on 2/13/22 at 12:32 pm to TorchtheFlyingTiger
Never been myself but I've heard the German war cemeteries in France/Belgium from both world wars are sort of uniquely haunting because of the headstones design and obviously the history behind them.
These little black crosses that seem squat and short. I know the one by Normandy is called La Cambre and I remember years ago seeing an NBC special (it was for the 60th anniversary of the invasion) where an old German veteran was going around to the graves of his friends.
The people I know who've gone said the atmosphere and the general "feel" of the German ones is much different compared to the US and commonwealth ones which have really brightly covered headstones.
These little black crosses that seem squat and short. I know the one by Normandy is called La Cambre and I remember years ago seeing an NBC special (it was for the 60th anniversary of the invasion) where an old German veteran was going around to the graves of his friends.
The people I know who've gone said the atmosphere and the general "feel" of the German ones is much different compared to the US and commonwealth ones which have really brightly covered headstones.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 12:51 pm to mattfromnj
After doing genealogy on my paternal side, I decided to visit the graves of all my grandparents going back to the first great grandfather that arrived in Louisiana as an Acadian exile in 1765. I've visited all the gravesites except for my great grandparents who are buried in the cemetery in Patterson. I plan to visit that one soon. The gravesite of the first, who arrived in 1765, is not accessible as it's the St James cemetery on the River Road and the oldest part of the cemetery is now under the levee. All the others are at St Michaels in St Martinville.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 12:54 pm to doublecutter
I think I remember an app you can get the will use the camera on your phone to read the headstone and then will lookup any relevant information that can be found.
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