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Life took a sudden left turn for me when I read the article on the front page “Own your own marble orchard,” in the August 17 edition by Jed Duvall. It really bothered me.
Never in my wildest dream did I anticipate that someone would call the cemetery a marble orchard.
Tb me, an orchard is some kind of product that brings in revenue for an owner. Cemeteries are not about profit.
While the author, Jed Duvall, is a talented writer and a great resource for this paper, I disagree with the tone of his article, and felt it was in bad taste to make that comparison with the distraction from the important problems with the Washington Masonic Cemetery.
First of all it is not a marble orchard.
We have chosen to remember our dead with stones and markers that tell about the people who are buried beneath them. We take the bodies of those whose spirits have departed and place them in the ground, or in the enclosure of
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