Posted on 06/22/2023 5:03:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I agree with you, but one member on that sub was a director for RMS Titanic inc that auctioned off over 5,500 artifacts brought up from the wreckage.
But do they plunder from the graves and put the items up for auction?
I used to do that a lot, looking for military gravestones from the Civil War on. If I could get around better, I'd enjoy strolling through a cemetery from time to time. You never know what you will find. Went to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va., Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Ma., many VA cemeteries, and the last cemetery I visited was the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in 2006.
I don’t even know where to start.
As a Titanic fan, a graveyard fan, fan of well-written English, etc.
Let’s start with “people visit the Buddy Holly crash site”. Not to mention his grave and the others.
If you are from New England or otherwise way up northeast, you should be able to find many Revolution graves.
I loved the old graveyards up there. Truly lots of real oldies.
Exactly….that grates on me too.
And contributed to the confusion from that ridiculous first line.
We were just there the other day for Father’s Day!
Sadly many of them were probably imploded themselves.
Doesn’t matter. These people deserve respect, too. We can judge them, but they didn’t mean anything bad.
I don’t understand. Famous graveyards have tours.
Go to the office at the visitors center….website has the hours.
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Went there at least twice when I was younger. It is a special place. It's part garden, part bird sanctuary. Plenty of well-known people buried there:
Julia Ward Howe, Winslow Homer, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Booth, Dorothea Dix, Fannie Farmer, James Russell Lowell, Charles Sumner among others. Many of the old Boston families are buried there as well. It is definitely a place of historical interest.
It was common decades ago here in Pittsburgh. People would go for thrills after the prom or go to look for relatives.
Jeepers! Victims group from 111 years ago?
Born and raised in Rochester, NY. Still live in the State, smack dab in the middle. My screen name is based on the 55th Mass., the second black unit raised in the North during the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression). Robert Gould Shaw was Colonel of the 54th Mass. Alfred Stedman left the 54th to become Colonel of the 55th. I spent many years researching both units, and the men, both black and white who served in them.
Shaw's family lived in Boston, but they also had a home on Staten Island. There is a memorial at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, and another at the family burial site on Staten Island, for Shaw, although his body was never found. Hartwell is buried in Nuuanu Cemetery on Oahu, Hawaii. He moved there after the war to work as Attorney General for the King. Married the daughter of a Connecticut missionary, and spent the rest of his life there. Met members of both families during my research.
Full of very wealthy people. Why folks here at FR criticize those that took this sad voyage...is beyond me.
Sure, but what about people who watched the documentaries about the wreck?
I tend to agree with the relatives.
Good point. I was 3rd mate on a passenger ship once. I tell people that was the day when people went on a ship to go somewhere. It was also a cargo ship.
Well for one I said, unlikely. More importantly young adults working on the Titanic in 1912, 111 years ago, (and their siblings) were (likely) born no later than the 1890s. Its possible that they were his father's siblings but as I said, unlikely.
said John Locascio, 69, whose uncles, Alberto and Sebastiano Peracchio, died in the tragedy.
John was born in 1954. Did his father have siblings born in the 1890s? Its possible but unlikely. There's most likely another generation in there. Those "uncles" were most likely "great uncles" i.e his grandfather's siblings. Whatever the case, this person had no more than an anecdotal knowledge of those men and their lives and certainly no personal relationship. He has every right to mourn them as he should, and so should we all. He just doesn't have any special standing in this debate.
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