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What are you thinking right now?
12-03-2013, 11:51 PM (This post was last modified: 12-03-2013 11:53 PM by Minty.)
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RE: What are you thinking right now?
Up in Iona the graveyard has a whole load of tombstones that say on it at the bottom "Known Unto God" - people washed up on the shores after ships sank. There was a stack of them from September 1940 due to a ship that was sunk during the war.

The Falkland Islands graveyard at Darwin has 123 of them, because the Argentinian commanders during the 1982 invasion took all the soldiers dogtags off them when they realised they were going to lose - the twisted logic being they'd fight harder if there was the fear of being killed and buried in an unknown grave.

The grave of the old Labour leader John Smith is up in Iona. The locals objected privately because they've a rule not to allow "tourist burials" any longer because there isn't the room left except for locals & those on Mull, but as Labour back then had complete control of Scotland they were bullied into it (words to the effect of being threatened with a negative newspaper campaign from the Daily Record, funding cuts from central government, etc).

It was the start of the Mandelson era & was turned into a sort of shrine where anyone wanting to advance in the party was expected to go up & "pay homage" (they'd even put a stone on it, like it was the end of the film Schindler's List!). Sick doesn't begin to describe it, & it certainly didn't help the islanders any, as the buggers would arrive with their heavies, clear any tourists away so they could get uninterrupted photos looking suitably solemn at it for their next election leaflets before jumping on the first ferry back (which is a real horror to be in if the sea is anything less that calm, as it's flat bottomed!).

Smith's family also wouldn't listen to the locals warning them the stone they used for the graveslab was too soft for the salty air. The whole thing was eroded blank in ten years flat as a result & had to be recut at considerable expense.

Here's a good one that looks like it was from the famous Tombstone graveyard.

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RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 04-12-2010, 03:39 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 10-12-2010, 01:05 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 14-12-2010, 08:41 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 15-12-2010, 11:08 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 17-12-2010, 11:08 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 21-12-2010, 10:38 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 28-12-2010, 01:58 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 03-01-2011, 09:21 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - dellinqwartz - 07-05-2011, 12:50 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 16-05-2011, 11:33 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 18-05-2011, 09:28 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 18-04-2012, 06:07 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 18-04-2012, 07:34 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 19-04-2012, 07:35 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 20-04-2012, 01:02 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 22-04-2012, 06:41 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 25-04-2012, 05:44 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 25-04-2012, 11:35 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 11-05-2012, 11:49 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 13-05-2012, 02:34 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 17-05-2012, 02:34 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 20-05-2012, 08:18 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 17-06-2012, 06:37 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Minty - 12-03-2013 11:51 PM

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