Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A Slight Issue with the Tombstone

So I get all the way out to Calverton National Cemetery and eventually locate Section 66 grave 5841. Front, no problem: Daniel J. Hannon, U.S. Army, etc. etc. The back: "Rosemary A. His Wife." Oh my God.  That must be the engraver's default setting for wives, because there is no way we would have opted for "his wife," to put it kindly. Fortunately, my mother was secure enough not to care about such a thing; she might even find it funny. Or not.

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