Cypress Hills Cemetery

white – had sung Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika – as his coffin had been carried out of the plain weatherboard church and across the small churchyard, before being buried in the deep red soil of his beloved adopted homeland as the sun set beyond the western hills. Back at the homestead, as the moon had risen over the grasslands and the mourners sang and toasted ??’s memory, ?? had slipped away to their bedroom, laid her pounding head on his pillow and fallen deeply asleep. The following morning, before…

have occurred, but the one place that remained the same, was the cemetery. The place had a gloomy and dilapidated feel to it, nobody had the money to fix it, and nobody had the will to do it. The bushes were overgrown and weeds spewed out from cracks in the pavement. On the day of Bob’s funeral, the sun was hidden from us behind the curtain of grey clouds. We were never tempted to venture near the cemetery. Our belief of the cemetery being inhabited by lurking haints was enough to keep even the…

the trail. We were on the open area and just like the sign at the beginning said there were a lot of dirt hills everywhere. We figured out that we had about ten minutes left until we needed to start driving back to the car and then go home. So we decided to hang out around the hills and ride around on the hills. We did a few jumps and we were about to leave when I went way to fast up a hill and went flying up into the air and landed pretty hard on the ground. Unable to slow down I landed…

Everytime someone mentions mountains, I cannot help but to think about the trek up my first mountain. The first mountain I climbed, was Mount Fuji in Japan. Also known as Fujisan, this mountain stands at just over twelve-thousand feet. As the morning of the climb approached, my family and I got up early to go to the bus station. The bus ride was an hour long, past lush green farms,terraced rice paddies, down back country roads, before we arrived at the SUicide Forest. The Suicide Forest is…

emerald with a few drops of dew after a rainy day, with rolling hills that go on farther than the eye can see and an infinite clear baby blue sky above it all, there was a little red barn. It was old and rustic, completely different from the other cheery and bright cottages in the tiny town of Wicksdale. It’s paint peeled off the walls a little bit more every day. It creaked and groaned with the gusting winds that accompanied the hill it sat on. Nobody ever approached the Johnson barn. Everyone…

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Arlington National Cemetery is a lot of different memorials into one location. Inside the Cemetery there is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, Amphitheater, Arlington House, John F Kennedy gravesight. Section 60 (Afghanistan Graves) and the Challenger and Columbia memorial. The Cemetery consists of about 400,000 are buried in the Cemetery alone. Within the 400,000 graves about 5,000 are unmarked do to unknown soldiers. About 14,000 are veterans that buried at the cemetery. In the Amphitheater…

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