roadside memorials

[WTJ]

Don't care, but don't like eyesores either.

 

[dennishoddy]

I hardly never talk on here like some that are so much smarter than every one else, Just look at all there posts. This kind of struck a nerve. I use to not care for the markers ether, But on July 1st me and the wife was woke up early that morning by a OHP knocking on our front door. When I opened it he was looking at me holding my youngest sons billfold and phone, I looked at the driveway and saw his jeep was not at his house. He had ran off the road coming from work and flipped the jeep. No seat belt was being worn. I am a retired Firefighter of 28 years and he was a volunteer , so he has went with me on many calls to extract people from accidents. He always knew to wear a belt, Why he didn't I don't know but he was pinned for hours before some came down our country road and discovered the accident. Any way I did not put any thing up at the scene, however I do stop and place my hands on the ground where he took his last breath and Hell I can't explain it but I feel like I am connecting is some way to him. I pray none of you ever loose a child or loved one, But those that have, may not think like we use to so try and understand what they may be going threw. I visit my son's grave every week at the cemetery and miss him so much. I have a different feeling about the road markers than I use to, But still chose not to put one up. Any way I will shut up for the next 5 years. LOL

Its not right that a parent has to bury a child.

That knock on the door is something that nobody wants to experience. I'm sorry that it had to happen to your family. You have my condolences.

 

[BadgeBunny]

Homeland owns that land not Family Dollar

But that's my point exactly. Where the monument is located is NOT where they found her body. THAT spot is about to be covered with concrete ...

 

[BadgeBunny]

I hardly never talk on here like some that are so much smarter than every one else, Just look at all there posts. This kind of struck a nerve. I use to not care for the markers ether, But on July 1st me and the wife was woke up early that morning by a OHP knocking on our front door. When I opened it he was looking at me holding my youngest sons billfold and phone, I looked at the driveway and seen hiss jeep was not at his house. He had ran of the road coming from work and flipped the jeep. No seat belt was being worn. I am a retired Firefighter of 28 years and he was a volunteer , so he has went with me on many calls to extract people from accidents. He always knew to wear a belt, Why he didn't I don't know but he was pined for hours before some came down our country road and discovered the accident. Any way I did not put any thing up at the seen, however I do stop and place my hands on the ground where he took his last breath and Hell I can't explain it but I feel like I am connecting is some way to him. I pray none of you ever loose a child or loved one, But those that have, may not think like we use to so try and understand what they may be going threw. I visit my son's grave every week at the cemetery and miss him so much. I have a different feeling about the road markers than I use to, But still chose not to put one up. Any way I will shut up for the next 5 years. LOL

I have not buried a child but I have buried a grandson. It is not natural for a parent to outlive a child and I have seen firsthand the depth of that pain. I am terribly, terribly sorry for your loss, sir. You and your family will be in my prayers tonight.

 

[Yourshoesareuntied]

We have a lady at work that wears a necklace urn the size of a large fist pack...its the ashes of her father.

 

[Wheel Gun]

We have a lady at work that wears a necklace urn the size of a large fist pack...its the ashes of her father.

Creepy.

 

[Yourshoesareuntied]

Creepy.

Yes...I'm glad I'm not a supervisor, I would have mishandled the situation.

 

[BadgeBunny]

We have a lady at work that wears a necklace urn the size of a large fist pack...its the ashes of her father.

Some things are just ... ... well ... NOT right ... I probably wouldn't have handled that situation with the proper amount of finesse either ...

 

[Reckoning]

Yep. It was a sad story, although I think that if she'd made just a little bit better choices she might not have wound up in pieces in that duffel bag ... As much as I'd like the animals that did that to her to pay for what they did, she does have some personal responsibility in her own demise, I believe ...The trash pile her family put up and then left is sadder. They haven't even kept it clean, neat and tidy. It's a faded, torn-up mess ... The saddest part of all is her "place" is about to be the parking lot of a Family Dollar store. How's that for a "memory"?

Like Grandpa said, get over it. The memories you want to hang onto are not the ones of her body parts rotting in a duffel bag, within walking distance of a school. (Or how they got there ...) Or, I dunno ... maybe they are ... Some people just like to feel that gut-wrenching pain, I guess ... (Not directed at you, specifically, just a general observation ...)

 

[HMCS(FMF)Ret.]

I have no problem with memorials. People all grieve in their own way.