Cemetery Walks with Paul, November 7, 2014

The Meuse-Argonne offensive was the last battle of World War II. It lasted months and 26,000 American s were killed, including twenty-four year old Walter Runge.

Paul and I went walking in Concordia Cemetery by our house on Bates--discovering that it has been there since the early to mid 1800's and was begun by Germans.  The leaves in the city proper have not fallen yet, and parks and cemeteries are great places to see large, colorful trees before winter weather sets in for good (probably this week).  We also went to the cemetery on Mackenzie where Paul's Dad is buried and witnessed a Bosnian Muslim funeral--the person who died is not in a coffin, and is only covered by a colorful burial shroud.  I just read that according to that tradition, the person should be buried before sundown on the day that they passed away--and the family prepares the body for burial.