Saturday Rick shot at 7:00 in the morning so we got to get up bright and early.
Rick was not very happy with his shooting but really he should not have been shooting at all. On Thursday he had a MRI done on his shoulder. He has a full tear in his rotator cuff and a partial tear in his bicep tendon. He is going to have to have surgery. He will be out of work for 3 months and no archery. He is very sad but just wants to get the surgery done. He will see his ortho doctor next Friday and hopefully the surgery will be scheduled for the following week. So anyhow with the pain in his shoulder he was not able to shoot his bow the way he should so he did not shoot as well as he usually does. But he was happy that he got to shoot at all. He ended in the middle of the pack.
So after Rick was done shooting on Saturday we got to do something that I have wanted to do for the past two years.....We went to Cave Hill Cemetery. I kind of have an obsession with cemeteries and always want to stop and look at all the grave stones when we are by them. Cave Hill is a very well know cemetery and they even give you a map when you get there so you can find the point's of interest.
You may think it is creepy or weird to want to go a cemetery but to me a cemetery is a peaceful place that is full of history. It makes me sad to think of the death but I also like to think of the lives the people lived and about the people that loved them. It was interesting to look up the names and find out about the people. So many stories and moments in history. What we could and should learn from them. We were there for over two hours and I could have spend another two just looking at all the gravestones and monuments.
I have never been in a cemetery as big as Cave Hill.
I took this picture so you can get an idea just how big some of the gravestones/monuments are.
My pictures do not do show the true beauty of them. This one was copper.
Throughout the cemetery there were beautiful mausoleums. Of course they were all locked but you could look through to doors. I just could not get over the beauty of them.
I wish some of these pictures had been a little better. It was very cloudy out and looking up it was hard to get them in a good light. I love all of the angles.
The saddest part of my day was visiting the Cave Hill National Cemetery where over 5,500 soldiers killed in the Civil War and other American Wars are buried.
It always makes me sad to think of all the young lives that are lost in mostly senseless wars. The graves just went on and on......
And then there is the graves of the unknown soldiers. So many without a name so many with families that never get to have the closure of saying goodbye or knowing where there loved one is.......
This is the Satterwhite Memorial Temple. It was erected in 1928 as a memorial to Preston Pope Satterwhite's wife, Florence Brokaw Martin Satterwhite. It was beautiful
So many children...This one just stood out to me. Baby Edwin....I can't comprehend how sad it would be to loose a child. So many young people died so young.
This is the Wilder Monument. It was erected in memory of Minnie, the Wilder's only child who died at the age of seven.
I loved what Margaret Sanders wrote on this monument.
Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken is buried at Cave Hill. His monument has a bronze bust likeness sculpted by his daughter Margaret.
Beautiful, sad, peaceful, historical.......
Sharon
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