Hello Friends,
My husband and I like to visit cemeteries on our travels. We enjoy reading the stones. We often wonder why we see the items left on the gravestones.
I am sharing a few unique to us gravestones that we have seen throughout our travels.
Bruce Wasielewski, we did not know him, but I was interested in what he had put on the back of his gravestone.. IT IS WHAT IT IS DARLING.
I have always wondered why I would see coins. I found out the answer, please share with me if you know something different.
Leaving coins on veterans' gravestones is a common tradition meant to show the fallen soldier's family that someone paid their respects. Different denominations represent varying levels of connection:
A penny means you visited. A nickel signifies you and the deceased trained together, a dime means you and the veteran served together, and a quarter shows you were there when the veteran died.
If you know of any other traditions, please do share.
