When You See A Cross on A Grave...Do ....

[rsmith6621]

You think......

[Asgaya Dihi]

1. Depends on the context

In a single instance I might think of the individual and what it represents to them, but in the context of the picture above it gets pretty complicated.

I used to work in the DC area and sometimes we'd do work for the government, working in the Arlington Cemetery was one of the deeper places I'd ever spent a bit of time. It's a lot like the Vietnam Memorial in ways, you spend time thinking about everything from the Civil War to the more recent ones and all that those crosses and other symbols (they are there too) represent.

For me in mass like that, the religious aspect is probably the smallest part. So many lives and so much history, and so much of it wasted. It brings a lot of thoughts to mind, which ones might depend on the day or what's in the news.

[graywarrior]

2. Means Over & Out to me.

I don't place much religeous meaning to it. But that's me.

[demosincebirth]

10. I agree. Such a waste of human life.

[Redbear]

3. I think of the Prince of Peace ...

and how disgusting it is that people like Bush use religion to get young men and women to die for his lies.

[xchrom]

4. in the picture shown -- it's a symbol --

in a civilian cemetary it's a personal atatement about the individual who is buried -- with qualifications, i.e. it doesn't indicate the devoutness of said individual.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. It means "vampires buried here."

"lookout!"

[Bjornsdotter]

7. Roflmao! n/t

[GoneOffShore]

6. This poem

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

[Hoping4Change]

8. Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

[demosincebirth]

9. Must be a Christian?

I'd go for Jewish.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. Usually to me it means

that someone died in an accident by the highway. I really don't see that many cross tombstones in cemeteries-even veteran's tombstones aren't shaped that way, at least in the National Cemeteries in the Midwest that I've visited. The graves in these cemeteries go back to the Civil War, and are rectangular with a rounded top.

[rsmith6621]

12. kick

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