friday is date night

[low_delta]

We saw old things tonight.


I just discovered a cemetery near our house, that I had been unaware of, so we drove over to have a look. Then we drove into Cedarburg to have a short walk, and maybe a drink.



After we saw the Lincoln, we went to a brew pub to have a brew (just one, and Cyn had it). The place is in the basement of an old mill. To get into the bar, you have to walk across a bridge over the millrace. The water pours out of what used to house the turbine that generated the power. Cyn has a bit of a phobia of dark pools of water, especially concrete ones. This is a fairly dank place, and we were there at dusk, so it was dark too. It's a ten-second exposure. It's kinda blurry, but I didn't want to scare Cyn, so it's behind the cut.

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[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

My great grandmother is buried in the military section of a large cemetery. All the headstones in that one are flat and the same size. The rest of the cemetery has flat stones, but they are not regulated in size. One of her husbands (not my great grandfather) was a vet, so they allowed her in. I remember someone in the family saying that her age (108) was a factor for letting her be buried there, but I could not figure out why.

Isn't it interesting that most military cemeteries have those flat stones, but the national cemeteries that are maintained by the military have the upright lined up crosses?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I went to look at the upright stones (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/images/ANC_surroundings/PAGES/image39.html) at Arlington, and found pictures of some graves with spouses (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/images/ANC_surroundings/PAGES/image47.html). It would appear that not just anyone can have his spouse buried with him. I would guess that if there's any sort of thing about you that's interesting, you can get in - a general, near world record age, whatever. No hard and fast rule about it.

As an aside, I found a pic of Bobby Kennedy's grave (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/images/ANC_surroundings/PAGES/image28.html).

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

WOW!! Why is Bobby not surrounded? Nice placement!

Great grandmother was an 8 year old during Cherokee removal (that would be trail of tears to everyone else) so that is another "interesting thing" about her life, other than her age at death.

She was a really cool woman. Right up until a week before she passed.