There were lots of shots of National Cemetaries on TV lately, and as I watched them a question arose.
I can understand how they can site the markers in such precise lines and diagonals. But what with ground settling, etc. how do they keep them that way for years and years?
A really good maintenance crew.
My great-great-grandfather is buried at Arlington Nat’l Cemetary (ANC). His marker is aligned in place, but it’s tilted about 20[sup]o[/sup] off vertical. At first I thought it was moved by a root from a nearby tree (he was buried 142 years ago, so the tree was just a sapling if even there then).
But then I met someone who had worked as a groundskeeper at ANC when he was a teen. He said they’d often have mower races between the rows of headstones, and every once in a while they’d get off-course and bang a stone pretty hard. That provided a second theory…
Write a letter to the superintendant, or whomever, and tell them to straighten it up - NOW.
I work in an office building that abuts the cemetery. I don’t believe that for a second. I’ve never seen any actions like that, and I don’t think that it would b tolerated for a second.
The headstones are set in concrete, and are fairly secure.
And they have to be careful when they play paintball because some of those stray shots pack quite a wallop.
complete BS