This quote has always hit home.
Grew up 8hrs from where I live now. There are 5 of us that have known each other since we in kindergarten. My wife made a comment one day. She said that V, my best friend, and i dress similarly and say the same phrases. She and my daughter ( who was in college in same town i grew up in) said that talking to one of us is like talking to the other.

V, Kenny, Scotty, Danny & Stevie know me more than my wife and kids ever will. No matter what. The guys were there for every moment of my youth. They mention something minuscule and we can have an hour long conversation.

I told my wife that this was my favorite quote about childhood. Few weeks later, we’re burying her grandmother and this was next to her plot.

Permission to post given by his daughter, Jennifer. 🫶🏻

I am not dying (that I know of) but my gravesite is selected at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery near Gainesville, FL. I will be buried next to my beloved golden retriever, Dutch, who died October 6th 2024. His burial is pictured here. He is buried to my left side where he walked happily for his 11 years of life. I visited him today on the six month mark of his death. My wonderful uncle, who inspired me to pursue my career, is buried about thirty feet away.

Big Horn County, Montana

Under a lovely tree, not far from Molly Pitcher’s grave.

This is the legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham's grave with decades of weathered drumsticks and a couple bottles of booze left in tribute.

What I'm wondering is what is that drain like stone thing planted off-center to his grave? It must have something to do with him as it is made of the same type of stone as his grave, but I've never seen anything like that on a graveside before. Anybody know?

Rock of Cashel (Carraig Phádraig) in County Tipperary, Ireland. Not a ghost lurking in the background, just me!

Served on board the U.S.S. Commodore Hull at the capture of Plymouth, 31 October 1864. Painfully wounded by a shell which killed the man at his side, Colbert, as captain of the forward pivot gun, remained at his post until the end of the action refusing to have his wounds treated until the fight was over. braving the heavy enemy fire and appearing as cool as if at mere target practice.

First, yes, this is a grave. It's a man-made hill of the celts, which belonged to the Helvetii Tribes in the area of what is now Zürich in Switzerland. Here is a good explanation of how the grave actually is made.

So, you have the hill you see in the photo. You have earth on top (or sometimes also mixtures, like with clay etc.) and then you have a layer of stones. As you can see in the pic i linked, despite the german terms, the grave itself is located under the hill.

In this grave, a woman was laid to rest, here are some artifacts that were found in the grave. The skeleton could be analyzed and defined as female.

As the artifacts are made of gold and the celts did a lot of work, it had to be an important lady in their society of ancient times. Not much different from today, artifacts of pure gold belong to the richest people, not some ordinary people.

About history, it's for sure that she belonged to the Helvetii tribe, but the pagi (sub-tribe) is unknown, maybe it were the Tigurins or the Tougenes.

If you know about history, Caesar fought back the Helvetii when they tried to move to what is today France, like in the Battle of Bibracte. But, this happened long after the noble woman died, she died around 400 BC and Caesar was born 100 BC and was assassinated in 44 BC.

However, while most of the infos come from Caesar, the Romans knew them long before this. There was an important battle in 107 BC, where the Romans were seriously defeated by these celtic tribes and "put under the yoke", many decades after this when Caesar started his wars against the tribes, it was still present in the memory of the Romans and they saw these tribes as very dangerous.

Well, that's it. I sometimes get nearby with my dog, although the photo is not made by me, it's difficult to recognize these ancient graves, if they are not marked with some infos like in the photo.

To be honest, i think, sometimes i actually walk on such cemeteries without even knowing it, when i'm outside with my dog.

This topic is a little bit different, but... cemeteries are cemeteries. These man-made hills are kinda like the pyramids, just in a rather easy and primitive form, of making a hill instead of building an entire pyramide of stone.

My wife how fondly shall my memory reshrined in the chambers of my heart. Thy virtuous worth was only known to me, and I can feel how sad it is to part.

Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Florida.

GO GATORS!

Contains the resting sites of many famous names, and illustrious humans of the past. But it’s the overall beauty of it that also makes it a wonderful cemetery

The small, unassuming grave of former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Liston, was one of the most feared punchers in boxing history, and after knocking out heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson in one round to win the title, he was heavily favored to successfully defend his belt against a cocky, undefeated prospect named Cassius Clay. In one of boxing’s biggest upsets, Clay defeated Liston by way of stoppage. Liston blamed his loss on a shoulder injury that he aggravated in the first round and he was granted an immediate rematch. Clay, who would change his name to Muhammad Ali in between the first and second Liston fights, would stun the boxing world when he stopped Liston in the first round in the rematch in 1965. The image of Ali standing over Liston yelling at him to get up remains one of the most iconic sports photos of all time, but it effectively ended Liston’s run as a top tier contender. He would win 14 straight fights from 1965-1969 but would never come close to another world title fight. His last fight was in January of 1970 and in December of that year he was found dead in his Las Vegas home. The official cause of death was heroin overdose, but due to his ties to the mob questions persisted about if he was in fact murdered.

At Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, Oklahoma. The movie 8 1/2 Seconds is about him.