On Saturday at Karate, I heard these women 
talking about how the scouts had put something like 10,000 flags on each headstone at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. If you've read my blog for a very long time you will remember the post I did about two years ago about going there. It's an experience all in it's own and I think at least once in your life time you should make a visit to a national cemetery. Helps you understand patriotism like nothing else. Well I thought it would be a a really interesting experience to see 10,000 flags (little flags) all together in this very humble place next to the ocean so I convinced my family to make a drive all the way down there. We went on a Sunday because I didn't want to interupt any memorial services that would be taking place on the actual holiday. It was busier that I thought it would be but I am so glad we went. It was and always is a unique experience. Before when my friend Steph and I were there we saw a headstone that had a very familiar symbol on it. In our church the man blowing into a bugle can only mean one thing...Angel Moroni! That was exactly what the symbol looked like. I went to the front desk to ask about it and the lady watching the next told me she thought it was that the person must have been a bugler in the service. While I was talking to her another guy walked in and told me that you can look it up online under the place to order headstones, that they have a listing of all the different symbols. So I did! Guess what? It is Angel Moroni! That is the symbol they have chosen to represent the LDS faith on the headstones. Cool huh? After I found one to take a picture of I got thinking about all the religious symbols that I saw. The star of David, the cross, I even saw one that I thought might have been a Muslim symbol and I thought to myself that even in war, side by side, men and women fight to keep America free. Religion doesn't matter, race doesn't matter, so why should it in our everyday lives? Can we ever just be...American's? These were some of my favorite pictures from our afternoon. Hope you enjoy them!
talking about how the scouts had put something like 10,000 flags on each headstone at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. If you've read my blog for a very long time you will remember the post I did about two years ago about going there. It's an experience all in it's own and I think at least once in your life time you should make a visit to a national cemetery. Helps you understand patriotism like nothing else. Well I thought it would be a a really interesting experience to see 10,000 flags (little flags) all together in this very humble place next to the ocean so I convinced my family to make a drive all the way down there. We went on a Sunday because I didn't want to interupt any memorial services that would be taking place on the actual holiday. It was busier that I thought it would be but I am so glad we went. It was and always is a unique experience. Before when my friend Steph and I were there we saw a headstone that had a very familiar symbol on it. In our church the man blowing into a bugle can only mean one thing...Angel Moroni! That was exactly what the symbol looked like. I went to the front desk to ask about it and the lady watching the next told me she thought it was that the person must have been a bugler in the service. While I was talking to her another guy walked in and told me that you can look it up online under the place to order headstones, that they have a listing of all the different symbols. So I did! Guess what? It is Angel Moroni! That is the symbol they have chosen to represent the LDS faith on the headstones. Cool huh? After I found one to take a picture of I got thinking about all the religious symbols that I saw. The star of David, the cross, I even saw one that I thought might have been a Muslim symbol and I thought to myself that even in war, side by side, men and women fight to keep America free. Religion doesn't matter, race doesn't matter, so why should it in our everyday lives? Can we ever just be...American's? These were some of my favorite pictures from our afternoon. Hope you enjoy them!
See the Angel Moroni?
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