Collin's parents must be so very proud of him, this young one is a gem...read the articles.
Posted on 05/25/2005 1:59:25 PM PDT by pabianice
date : 5/7/5 equals international haiku day on FreeRepublic
To: theFIRMbss
Isn't it Haiku Day every day for you on FR? :)
64 posted on 05/07/2005 10:36:54 AM CDT by Constitution Day
The rules in this cemetary seem to be aimed at the wrong sort of person. Cemetaries all over the country are plagued with people stealing flowers off of graves and too often grave stones being pushed over, broken and worse forms of vandalism.
Memorial day only comes once a year..........Why am I beginning to sense the presence of some military despising, pink, grave yard union local of some sort, behind this absurdity??? It's Massachussetts...... of course-never mind.
Spelling police? Are we now blogging in a police state. What has that bastage Mc"I'moncrack"Cain done to our country?
"The holes don't want the expense of having to remove all the flowers when they have wilted."
I suppose they could just do it and then send the kids parents the bill?
Or they could just mulch them the next time they mow the grass.
They would not be able to send anybody a bill.
I suspect it's all a money issue, many older cemetery's have had their maintenance funds raided and then the owners abandon the property.
Although I'm still mulling over the private property and "other families" rights in this one,..as an ex-cop and a combat vet, I had to laugh at your observation. I can just hear the radio traffic in my old unit. I honestly don't think our desk Sgt. woulda had the nerve to put this call out.
Or I'm even more certain that this fine young Man would be all too happy to pick them up when the week has passed.
Admittedly, that was my first thought, too. It's the old "if we bend the rules for you, we'll have to bend the rules for everyone" logic, I'm sure. I wouldn't want some stranger decorating my relative's grave with something my dead relative wouldn't like. And, maybe I just happen to know my dead relative hated flowers.
For what it's worth.
It could be a legal thing. Sad, though.
Yeah. And some people
get pissed off when anyone
explains anything
because some people
are just so darn sure they know
it all already.
Don't forget about the Confederate POWs at Fort Warren, although that prison was not nearly as bad as the other Yankee facilities.
You must have been slow, not learning how to spell cemetery-cemetary until college.
Collin's parents must be so very proud of him, this young one is a gem...read the articles.
I dunno. Lots of 8 year olds getting arrested lately for just doing what 8 year olds tend to do. I can see the kid getting handcuffed and taken away to jail for this. He should donate the flowers to a local public soldier's memorial where they can be planted and everyone can enjoy seeing them all summer (I would hope that his community has such a place). I like the idea of putting flags on each grave instead of the flowers.
"Not sure why people are attacking this guy. This is private property, after all."
I have considerable experience with cemeteries and this rule sounds pretty bogus to me. Bottom line: If this IS an actual rule it will be posted on the grounds and available to the public in pamphlet form.
Question: HOW do the trustees KNOW who is or is not a relative of the interred? Moreover why the hell do they care enough to make a rule?
I have heard of rules regulating what is put on a grave but never rules regulating who can put it there.
I am choked with anger here.
A little kid wants to honor veterans with flowers, including vets buried some 300 years, and someone says no?
I understand that you like the place your family is buried and I know many places like that today espically in large to big city areas. But, I can tell you that where I am from( a small town of about 200 and a burial place donated by my GGGGrandfather who donated the land ) it is not done that way to this day. There is no cahrge for burial. You go out and set a concrete block in the ground for your plots you want and NOBODY bothers them. Flowers can be placed at any time. We would never act as the above so called humans have. And there is at every "Decoration" day a place where many donate to the up keep. It is mowed ALWAYS as is needed and they do NOT get lazy and throw the flowers AWAY at anytime. That is the way to respect the dead and the living.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.