Loren (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gute) wrote,@ 2005-11-17 19:19:00 |
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With Veterans' Day (Armistice Day) recently past, a lot of the little United States flags waving close by graves at the dear cemetery in my neighborhood are brandy-new. Close to the gravelled path is one headstone I'd never much noticed until someone planted a new flag next to it - right next to it - so close that it obscures part of the name carved on the stone.
Which part of the name? Depends. When the breeze is from the west or southwest, the direction of the prevailing winds here, the name you see on the headstone is this:
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YOU
Just the kind of help I need, and just the kind of shock I go there to get. I hope you may find it to be a useful cue for you, too.
With Veterans' Day (Armistice Day) recently past, a lot of the little United States flags waving close by graves at the dear cemetery in my neighborhood are brandy-new. Close to the gravelled path is one headstone I'd never much noticed until someone planted a new flag next to it - right next to it - so close that it obscures part of the name carved on the stone.
Which part of the name? Depends. When the breeze is from the west or southwest, the direction of the prevailing winds here, the name you see on the headstone is this:
(scroll down)
YOU
Just the kind of help I need, and just the kind of shock I go there to get. I hope you may find it to be a useful cue for you, too.
