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  •  10-07-2009, 7:26 PM

    Graves of Veterans

    I know from the subject that this is going to get an immediate NO, because there has to be atleast 5 million veterans in the United States alone, not to mention world wide. The real problem is that I don't have a good title for this so please read on and see what you think.

    First some reasoning: I am an American Civil War buff, and often times find a great or even interesting story that goes along with a veteran. Where can this be waymarked?

    Second, the limitations: This is not a category for duplications. If it is a Revolutionary War grave, it belongs there as well as any story or knowlege that goes along with that veteran. This would go for Medal of Honor graves. This leaves countless numbers of people that contributed a lot, or have a significant or even interesting past that needs to be told. I had thought about "graves of a famous person," but consider the abreviated story that follows:

    I have been researching for several years the "Palmyra Massacre" (look for the waymark I posted for the complete story). I have been trying to find the graves of the subject, and have found one of them. The one has a very intersting story, that he was the one that was substituted for a previously selected man. While unremarkable in life, his death at age 20 seems to me to be tragic and remarkable because of first the circumstances and second the execution story.

    This being said, to me the person would not go under a "famous person."

    To me the waymark is about the story almost more than the location. If a person isn't able to generate a past of the person, this isn't the category that would accept the waymark.

    Not to go to far, but I also can see a similar category for non-military graves... but again... no good thoughts on a name.
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