mrmrssmith.
I am not criticising you and in my opinion your post should have been left alone. You refer in your original posting as "just gravestones" but I would suggest that you do not understand what "gravestones" represent. In my grandmothers case the loss of her dearly loved brother affected her and her family for the whole of the 20th Century, 100 years of grief, pain, loss, thoughts of what might have been, what kind of men would he and his friends had grown up to be and to do, for example my grandmothers brother was a talented artist. In the later case that I quoted of the Second World War my friend had a long life scarred by guilt as the sole crew member to survive, after which he married, brought up a family, had a career, became a father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather and yet eaten up with grief and guilt for his lost crew and other friends who died and yet assuaged as an old man by the pilgrimage to Durnbach.
It is not the gravestones that are important it is what they represent.
Last edited by DC10RealMan; 28th Jun 2010 at 19:09.