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To: Robe

I’ve never seen such a unique tomb. What is on the top of it?

Seems like I’ve read here on FR that they wanted to exhume the remains to see if they were really John Paul Jones’. Not sure whatever became of that.


20 posted on 06/28/2007 10:37:08 AM PDT by Jessarah
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To: Jessarah
My memory is some what short these days, at one time I could tell you alot about the crypt. The sarcophagus is wrapped in Seaweed and upheld by the tails of dolphins . The vault itself is a cobalt blue stone and gives the illusion of being under the sea.
It is quite beautiful and has a sense of serenity about it.
If your ever in the neighborhood it sure is worth the time to have a look see.
BTW..
JPJ lived out his later years in Paris and he coffin was not found until 1906 ( I believe ),it was escorted home by a squadron of US warships, it was then placed in the Crypt in Annapolis MD
25 posted on 06/28/2007 4:44:30 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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