We drive by the Pleasant Grove Cemetery almost daily. About two weeks ago Reed asked if we could go to the cemetery. I told him that we could go, but then in my head thought that he would forget, and that I would not ever take him. Well, he did not forget. Today after Alan got home from school, I packed the kids into the car for a quick twenty minute look at the cemetery. On the way there I lectured them on respecting the headstones by not climbing them or playing hopscotch on them. When we got there the quick 20 minutes turned into 40 minutes then an hour. We found out that graves with American flags flying next to them were all veterens of various wars. We found really old graves and ones that had just been filled in. All the while the kids were asking questions about everything. We ended up in the Veterens memorial on one side of the cemetery. A bronze statue depicting a modern soldier and a revolutionary war soldier in the center. The kids were entranced by all the names on the memorial wall and the different symbols for the branches of the military. We finally wandered back to the car with arms full of pine cones. Tired and thirsty we drove home to drink lemonade. Who knew that cemeteries were so cool?
