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THIS IS A CEMETERY
--Author unknown 
Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, Iowa

"Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families

are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is

undisguised. This is a cemetery.

"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,

historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.

"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved

in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -

not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family

memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.

"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of

yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery

exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."

Quote from William Gladstone (1809-1897), three-time Prime Minister of England and Victorian contemporary of Benjamin Disraeli:

"Show me the manner in which a nation or community

cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical

exactness the tender mercies of its people, their

respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty

to high ideals."

"Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have."

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)


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