Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted March 20, 2019 05:01 PM
Dave's pictures in that other post reminded me of some pictures I took the other day. I'd gone to the local Protestant cemetery (Catholics have their own) to see if a grave stone had been placed at the grave of a wonderful young lady who was one of my daughter's few friends to stick around once her problems began, and who was tragically killed last March 13 in a fiery car accident. I don't know why, but I can get lost in a cemetery looking at the different stones, recognizing surnames, and the like. Took my wife - she's adopted - to the cemetery where my family has been buried for a while and it surprised me to see her react with seeing the graves of people with her "new" last name going back as far as the early 1800's.
Anyway, I was about three-fourths of the way through when I came across these graves.
Here's why these two stones are significant. David and Ida were the parents of Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, former president, 5-star general, and Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
This is the "family plot" where Ike's parents are buried. Nothing fancy. Totally unassuming and humble. Nothing like what you expect to see for the resting places of two people who produced a son who would become one of the most powerful men in the world not once, but twice. As I stood there at that wrought-iron fence looking down at those stones, I realized that in that very same place once stood President and General Eisenhower, just a man, grieving the loss of his beloved parents - incredible people - and as vulnerable as any of us would have been and have been in that same circumstance. And that's what I have always admired about Eisenhower. A simple man in historic times doing an extraordinary job when called upon, and his roots look very much like my own.
Makes you think.
[ March 20, 2019, 05:03 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
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