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12-14-2006, 10:08 PM
I made a "looking for pictures" trip yesterday, and one of the places was the big cemetery in Terrell (Oakwood, I believe it is). Some finds from that trip attached:
#1- RAF graves- they had a pilot training program in Terrell during WW II, and trained some 2,000 RAF pilots. I think it was 22 of them that never made it back home from the training from various causes (presumably crashes of one kind or another). They are all buried together. Although this plot is brown now, it has beautiful flowers in season.
#2- Aggie grave. Small stone at lower left, small Aggie flag near the stone, Reveille figure at lower right, "Gig Em" on the pants cuffs of the doll on the tree, plus the flag at top right. The lady buried there was of college age.
#3- The general- Griffith, if I remember right. Don't know who he was, but got the statue. The blue line is a processing defect of unknown cause.
#4- Somebody looked at that grave and said "It needs a chicken!". Or the guy was a chicken farmer, or ate at KFC, I don't know. You find some odd stuff out there.
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I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by,
and then it petered out and I had to retrace my steps and wasted half a day.
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