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This tombstone shows an angel trying to add to the candle of life
while the skeleton tries to snuff it out. Seeing as how this is a tombstone,
I guess the skeleton won.
The tombstones are all neatly lined up while life buzzes by in the
background:
Our tour guide told us an interesting story about that -- when the
cemetery was first open, everyone was buried wherever they would fit
(sometimes standing up), with head and foot stones. During the war,
however, a work project came up to make the cemeteries tidy. The stones
were removed, the ground flattened, new grass sown, and the headstones
replaced in nice, straight lines.
It looks really nice, but now no one is sure that the headstone bears
any relation to the body it's over, because there are no records indicating
that the workmen made a careful map of the cemetery before they moved
the stones. So while the people are likely in there somewhere, it's
no longer clear just where. Ooops.
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