Posted 4 years ago
hotairfan
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I live in a rural area of eastern PA. We have several near by churches and their respective cemeteries next to them. It was such a nice spring day today, that I decided to stroll the cemetery near my home. I like to look at the dates and especially the flag decorated stones of our veterans.
I counted twelve Revolutionary War veteran graves..... seven War of 1812 graves..... six Korean War graves and over twenty WWI & WWII graves.
This is in one small church cemetery in rural Eastern PA.
The community commissions local foundries to make bronze placards where the grave stones are weathered beyond recognition. This way we can see the resting place of our Country's heroes.
Honor our heroic vets, by visiting them from time to time. It gives us the needed feeling that our Country is still full of great Americans
I have always loved walking through cemeteries, loved riding the headstones especially if really!! old..
They gave their all; they deserve to be remembered and respected. Nice post.
Your Bronze plaque brought back memories!! My first job at 16 was pattent setter for a foundry in Somerville glue dates and names on patent plaques to cast those grave markers. One day I had to put Vietnam on one, I thought where the hell is Vietnam?? Found out 2years later when I was drafted Heroes All!! One Day I'll have One. Veterans Day memories.
Thank you for your service ------ yougottahavestuff.
Just last Sunday, I, along with 5 more members of my family spent the afternoon scrubbing family tombstones that were blackened with age.
I also edged around my dad’s bronze marker like the one in your photo #1. He was a First Lt in WWII, survived the war and lived to be 92 years old.
My favorite photo from that cemetery work day is my toddler great grandson “helping” clean around his great great grandparents’ grave.
I was a sweet day that touched my heart.
Hotairfan, I’m another lover of old cemeteries. Thanks for your post.
Yougottahavestuff, I was a high school student and had never heard of Vietnam either. You can probably understand my relief to have been a girl and not have to worry about getting drafted!
Hi Watchsearcher, I cannot thank your father for his patriotic service, so I thank you for his service.
Hotairfan, thank you for being so nice….I was just going thru a folder of his Army papers from the war years. The papers are so thin and delicate- I think paper was deliberately made thin to economize on goods.
Reading the discharge papers’ descriptions of responsibilities, I can understand my dad’s life-long “no nonsense” manner. I don’t know if his straightforwardness and “your word is your bond” persona was instilled in him by the military or if he was just naturally like that.
Thank you for your kindness in acknowledging his service to our nation.