--- Kate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graveyards are a peaceful yet mysterious place. All > these stories of people > -- and no way to know them -- really > > I love to walk among the headstones and read them > and wonder what the person > beneath the name looked like and what he did and > what she died from and when > and of course as a parent the tombstones of children > tear at my heart >
There's a tombstone just a few down from my mother-in-law's. On it are the names and birthdates of two children, a boy and a girl, who, if they had lived, would be about the same ages as my own two kids. They both died on the same day. Their parents names and birthdates are on the stone, with dates of death to be added later. It always breaks my heart when I see this and I wonder what happened? Car accident? Fire? Something very tragic. At Christmastime, there's always a little Christmas tree on their grave; other mementoes or flowers or gifts of some kind at other times of the year and the grave is always clean and well-tended. It makes me feel so sorry for those parents who lost both of their children at once and so young, and it makes me thank God for my own two kids. ______________________________________________________________________ Movies, Music, Sports, Games! http://entertainment.yahoo.ca
