Memorial Day
I hope you all had a good Memorial Day weekend. I took time today to visit a cemetery in Moscow, Idaho, where many of my relatives are buried. The kids enjoyed reading grave markers and hearing stories about their ancestors who traveled west in covered wagons.
This particular monument marks the grave of four of my great-great-aunts and uncles who died during a widespread diptheria outbreak in 1881.
We also discovered a weathered stone adorned with a cat, marking the grave of a 5-year-old girl who died in 1886.
My son has been fascinated by cemeteries since he first watched Scooby-Doo. Today's visit helped him to understand a little more about family, history, and the passage of time. It's important that our children realize where they came from, and who is responsible for them being here today. Not enough people pass those lessons on to their kids.
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2 Comments:
Mike, your son and I share a similar fascination. I have always been fascinated by grave yards. My favorites were the old ghost towns near where I grew up in CA. Like Columbia, CA espcially.
I also saw the picture of you baby girl. She is a doll. I'll have to share one on my blog of our little girl we finally got.
My only son died of SIDS is buried in St Thomas Cemetery. We have had another child. When she was a pre-schooler, we drove past the cemetery almost every day. She asked if this was where baby Paul was "grounded". She's now 16.
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