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TwilightGardener

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2. If my husband was to be buried at a national cemetery, I wouldn't want to see

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2013, 12:29 PM

Nov 2013

what basically amounts to junk and clutter lying around. It's a cemetery, have some fucking respect--that means no liquor bottles and football helmets. The dead person isn't giving a shit about the crap you leave on his grave. This goes for ALL cemeteries, IMO. Plastic flowers and pinwheels and faded photos--gah. Cheapens what should be a dignified, solemn piece of ground.

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Panel: Arlington cemetery should tighten grave rules [View all] unhappycamper Nov 2013 OP

I agree with this. Aristus Nov 2013 #1

If my husband was to be buried at a national cemetery, I wouldn't want to see TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #2

I have to agree with you. madaboutharry Nov 2013 #3

Grief is for the living, and if it helps the living move though the stages of grief Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #4