PHOTOS: Gravestones At National Cemetery Surprisingly Diverse

  • Tuesday, May 30, 2017
  • John Shearer
While over at the National Cemetery visiting the grave of my late mother, Velma Shearer, Monday afternoon and photographing it with a flag and a floral arrangement in front of it, I began to notice how different some of the graves nearby are.

Around the area just left of the entrance, the markers are all kinds of shapes and sizes, not just the vertical shape with a rounded top used for decades except for a brief period when flat markers were used.

With the quiet setting, even though numerous automobiles were driving around the giant circle and a storm was moving in, I decided to photograph a few of these markers.

I began wondering what their stories were and whether many — particularly the ones from the Civil War era — ever get visited often by descendants or by anyone other than Boy Scouts delivering flags.

I also realized they were all likely different in personality, but similar in their service to their country or their support of a spouse who had worn a military uniform.

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