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The worst part of the cemetary visit was the headstones that have been forgotten about. The grass has grown over the stones that are level with the ground and no one has noticed.

It was also interesting to see headstones that were shared between couples. I am curious to know how they're related or if they don't know each other at all.

I thought it was kind of weird that we were going on a fieldtrip to a cemetary. But it is a really calm, pretty place to walk around.

Those huge granite houses were kind of creepy. What was the near the back about? It just had names and dates on it. Was it for people who were cremated and just wanted there name engraved somewhere or what?

I visited the Pleasant View cemetary in my hometown. It is sort of large and flat, and it is surrounded by different low stone walls and has huge old pine trees in it.

Towards the back of the cemetary was something interesting. That was where most of the big pine trees were, and some of the headstones were made to look like tree stumps. From the distance they look like real tree stumps, but then when you get close you see that they are actually stone!

I visited the Hinckley Cemetery that we had previously talked about in class this weekend and again seen the 4 trenches that were of the burn victims and the monument dedicated to them. It was interesting.

When thinking of cemeteries I always think of my great-grandma who is still alive and when her husband died they had a tombstone built for the two of them to share and they started her death date with 19.. never thinking that it would turn to 2000, and that makes me laugh.

I visited a cemetary back home as I was gone on Good Friday. The thing that struck me about the cemetary is how beautiful of a place it really is. Our cemetary overlooks a small lake and is up on a hill with an amazing view. Because this particular cemetery is such a beautiful place it is really a celebration of an individual's life.

I also realized how very important it is for excellent groundskeeping and care at cemeteries. These places need to be profound sites in our culture and should be taken care of with extra time and effort. Today, many of our golf courses are much more manicured than cemeteries. This is not right.

Because I was unable to visit the Roselawn Cemetary on Friday, I visited two cemetaries over the weekend while I was home. The first that I visited was in my hometown of Byron, Minnesota. I don't hold a close relation to many of those buried here and it was more of a "looking" experience rather than "visiting" those who have passed. It seemed to me that this cemetary was full and I couldn't help but wonder where the city was going to put future gravesites. Do a lot of cemetaries deal with this issue?

The second cemetary I visited was in Alden, Minnesota, where my mother's side of the family is from. The facility is located adjacent to a small country church and was more sentimental to me as many of my relatives are buried here. I noticed that this was a more peaceful place than the cemetary located in the middle of Byron and it was more interesting for me to view the gravesites as I hold a connection to many buried there.

When Marc, Adam, and I first walked into Roselawn Cemetery we saw many graves that had long and odd last names. The names all seemed foreign. Does this cemetery have different sections for certain people? Such as ethic groups or different heritages?

What was the George Washington monument? When I was walking up to it from the west side I also noticed Greek symbols on the stairs. I found this very interesting and intriguing.

It was interesting to see that the engraved pictures were really popular with only those of Oriental descent. Also, they seemed to have more pride in their military service than others did. While some gravestones, with common Caucasian names such as "Anderson" or "Johnson" only featured the military star, or maaaaybe something like "Air Force Veteran - Korean War", others, particularly with the engraved pictures, featured prominent military histories, such as "Lt. in U.S. Marines 1949-1956" with a brief story sometimes too.

What is going to happen as existing graveyards get full over time?

It is interesting how much cemetaries have become a symbol for Americans.

There is a lot of variation in graveyards. As i left i noticed another cemetary down the road, and all of the headstones were lined up in great long rows.

I visited the Hackett cemetary by my home in Wisconsin. It was a relaxing experience because I took the time to walk around and relax from the day and see who was there that I new.

The cemetary is a hilly one and has many divits and is very old and not to modern, but there are people there that I know. It was quite interesting.

When visiting the cemetary on Friday, the first thing i noticed was how big it really was. At the cemetary at our church, it is much smaller and hardly do you see a visiter. On friday with the nice weather there were many visitors to Roselawn.

Another thing i noticed where the roads in the cemetary. I have seen some places where the roads are straight and the cemetary is more open. Roselawn had many different landscapes and trees that gave it a nice beauty, and the roads curved all over.

It's a little creepy, but I thought the Roselawn Cemetary was beautiful. It was so peaceful and relaxing.

I was amazed with how big the cemetary was. Originally being from a small town, I'm used to seeing much smaller cemetaries with older headstones.

One thing that I thought was unique about this cemetary was the small amount of flat headstones. I know that in my church's cemetary their can only be only large headstone to mark the family plot, but all of the individual graves have to be marked with flat headstones.

In my area each cemetary belongs to an individual church, I'm not sure if I am correct in guessing this but it looked the cemetary we visited was a generic cemetary for the area. Is that how most cemetaries are in the cities? Or are that a lot that are based on church also? Just curious.

One final thought on cemetaries. I had heard from several of the elderly people in my area that cemetary sites were chosen on hills with the poorest soil for farming. I don't know if it is true or not, but from most of the cemetaries I've seen I could believe it. Does anyone know about this or is just an old rumor?

Like Amanda, I thought it was kind of depressing to see those headstones that were being covered over with grass. If they aren't cared for, these memorials and the people they represent will be forgotten.

Like Capper said, these stones can tell stories even if there aren't many words on them. A row of three small stones marked the final resting places of 3 young children, who all died on the same day. Obviously some sort of tragedy. Its strange, I don't have any idea who these people are, but I can still feel sadness at something like that.

Back to what Jamie said, i was kind of wondering if the first graves were maybe like a greek or latin section. This would kind of go along with all the other greek letters in the cemetary.

The other thing that i noticed was on the way out, there were a bunch of headstones in a bunch, and only a couple of them had names on them. I was just wondering if the cemetary just sells these headstones with the graves so people don't have to buy their own or what?

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