Archive for the ‘Monuments + Memorials’ Category
Virtual Graves for Armistice Day
11, Nov 2011How to visit a Virtual Grave Alison Winward, The Guardian (November 10, 2010) Armistice Day Marked Around the World – In Pictures The Guardian (November 11, 2011) The War Graves Photographic Project Commonwealth War Graves Commission A quick post for Armistice Day (in the UK), Veterans Day (in the US) and Remembrance Day (in Canada). [...]
10 Years
18, Sep 2011This American Life In this show, we return to people who’ve been on This American Life in the last ten years, whose lives were drastically altered by 9/11, including Hyder Akbar, an Afghan-American teen who moved to Afghanistan after his father was tapped to become governor of Kunar province there. On the Media Ten years [...]
Holy Smoke: Celebrating Life Planning a loved ones final arrangements can be a challenging responsibility, one you want to do with care and consideration. Allow Holy Smoke to help you create a tribute to your outdoorsman or woman like no other. So yeah. I had heard about people loading ammunition with human cremated remains and [...]
Arlington Cemetery’s Mishandling of Remains Prompts FBI Criminal Probe Jerry Markon and Christian Davenport, The Washington Post (June 29, 2011) The Justice Department is investigating the mishandling of remains at Arlington National Cemetery in a broad criminal inquiry that is also seeking evidence of possible contracting fraud and falsification of records, people familiar with the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
The Value-added Tombstone
22, May 2011What’s the next best thing to placing flowers on your loved one’s grave marker? Teddy bears? Mylar balloons? Thanks to technology, those items are now passe. The latest way for you to pay your respects is via the QR code. The what?? A recent article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press discusses how Rochester (MN)-based [...]