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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3880079, member: 72790"]As a teacher of history one of the places I have always liked visiting, and presumably will wind up spending a great deal of time in, is a cemetery. I like to read the tombstones and meditate on what one can decipher from the information formation provided. The saddest are of the family plots where parents buried their children. Until the discovery of microbes and infection parents could expect that half their children would never grow up. The idea that parents did not feel the loss as much as we would is nonsense. I recall visiting a museum in ancient Rome many years ago and seeing a funerary sculpture that was placed on the tomb of a toddler showing him languidly playing with his worthless bulla and a rattle. Those parents must have suffered and felt a great loss to have placed that sculpture there. As much as I love to read about and study the past I am darn glad my living then and there is purely vicarious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3880079, member: 72790"]As a teacher of history one of the places I have always liked visiting, and presumably will wind up spending a great deal of time in, is a cemetery. I like to read the tombstones and meditate on what one can decipher from the information formation provided. The saddest are of the family plots where parents buried their children. Until the discovery of microbes and infection parents could expect that half their children would never grow up. The idea that parents did not feel the loss as much as we would is nonsense. I recall visiting a museum in ancient Rome many years ago and seeing a funerary sculpture that was placed on the tomb of a toddler showing him languidly playing with his worthless bulla and a rattle. Those parents must have suffered and felt a great loss to have placed that sculpture there. As much as I love to read about and study the past I am darn glad my living then and there is purely vicarious.[/QUOTE]
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