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  • Tale of two tombstones

    11/20/2004 6:38:46 AM PST · by mondoman · 14 replies · 1,514+ views
    Rocky Mountain News ^ | 11/20/04 | Jim Sheeler
    Tale of two tombstones Fort Logan caretakers carefully prepare twin grave markers for Marines killed in Iraq war By Jim Sheeler, Rocky Mountain News November 20, 2004 Sgt. Andrew Alonzo made his way among the flowing fields studded with gray marble markers, until he reached the workshop where they keep the headstones with no names. Two stone slabs lay in the morning sunlight, still cold to the touch. "All I know is that they're for two Marines, both killed on Veterans Day," said the cemetery caretaker, as he smoothed his bare hands over one headstone, then the other. "One was...