05-JUN-2006
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These flags were part of a memorial to the (at that time) 2800 service people killed in Iraq. While I have many pictures of the flags, this shot of flags sitting amongst wild, unmowed weeds of grass somehow struck the note of melancholy that I felt when viewing this site.
19-APR-2007
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Not a great shot, but one of the fun parts of the annual fall hikes of the Oberlin Club of Western New England is stumbling across the hidden history of New England. This was a spacious and little used old cemetery set on a dirt road in the middle of mountainess, wooded, peopleless terrain. Some of the club hikers are inspecting inscriptions. Just a snapshot, but look at the age of those gravestones. There was no grave even in the twentieth century in this plot, and then in the back right corner, the fresh recent grave of a veteran.