Contrarian thought. When I’m dead and buried, it think I’d like having jkids playing around my grave.
I know my Mom would. I think I would also. For about $1400 and have your ashes mixed with clay to cast a large brick sized tombstone. Sounds like a twofer to me. Kids playing on such a brick paved playground would be a threefer.
Ditto.
When I’m dead, feel free to play over my grave, or read, or have a BBQ.
Me too. Figure that someone has died at some point on almost every inch of Earth. Children should be children. Now, If adults were doing it, that’s a different story.
I spent last Thursday and Friday at a veterans cemetery. I tend to agree, even though I don’t think the groundskeeper would.
I wouldn’t be there anyway. Let em play.
I agree. I can remember as a kid playing around a town war memorial and being warned off by an old man. We weren’t causing any harm but we were just too young to understand what he was upset about. That doesn’t mean I didn’t eventually figure out his point of view, but I still think we weren’t causing any harm.
I understand your sentiment. What would be more innocent than carefree children playing in the fields? But this but seemed to be an organized political, show-event involving people who looked like a mob of young adults. It seems very strange, dirty and disrespectful.
I'll fully admit that I'd didn't bother to read the article, but I'm inclined to agree with you.
Some years ago, I was taken to task while WBill Jr and I were visiting a battleship. Mrs WBill was off looking at something or other, and Jr. - as bored 3-year-olds are wont to do - was running a Matchbox car up and down one of the pathways for the anchor chain (it was perfect, a nice long smooth straight sloped run). There wasn't anyone around but us, we weren't interrupting any programs or bothering anyone. It was just me and my kid, playing together on a pleasant spring morning.
Some busybody came from off the dock to give us the word about how disrespectful we were being. I disagreed - politely at first, then more stringently as she pressed the issue - saying that the sailors who served (and also died) aboard, did so precisely so WBill Jr. could do what he was doing. And, very likely, they'd be right there joining in, or at least watching with a grin on their faces. She huffed and puffed for a bit then flounced off, and that was the end of it.
But I've always thought about that. Was it disrespectful? As long as we weren't interrupting a service or ceremony, or endangering anyone .... what's the problem?
Carefree playing children is one thing. This admitted “staged stunt” with adults trampling flowers and markers is something else.