On-site Memorials

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John/az2

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Are these "on-site" memorials, flowers and notes, crosses at the scene of death, and baloons something that has come about fairly recently, or have I had my head in the sand for the longest time?

I'm refering particularly about the "new" Columbine shootings, although it seems to be a trend for "closure" where-ever someone dies.

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John/az

"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
 
I believe its Hispanic culturally derived and it has recently caught on mainstream....I've seen them all my life, however in the last five years they've been popping up around my area for non-Hispanics



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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
When I lived in Winston-Salem briefly, and I used to drive home to Richmond a lot to see the folks, I used to pass about four semi-permanent ones on Route 360 -- wooden crosses, flowers, painted goodbye messages. While I can understand the desire to pay tribute to a loved one, they used to give me the willies when I was driving alone at night. :eek:
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*quack*

[This message has been edited by duck hunt (edited February 17, 2000).]
 
I find them irritating, and an eyesore where ever they are. And I see a lot of them here in Arizona.

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John/az

"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
 
I started making trips to Venezeula back in 1988 fishing for tarpon, snook and later, peacock bass. I did quite a bit of driving around in Venezuela as we moved from one fishing site to another. This was the first time I had seen these "roadside memorials" which are now common here in the US.
 
Dunno...I've seen them all my life. Route 101 (or was it 111?) up in NH is one of the most dangerous highways in the Northeast because of its poor, narrow construction. Every half mile or so there's another wooden cross that was put up to show where a fatal accident occurred...

/Sciri/
 
I have seen them in Portugal and the Azores.
If I remember right, the State of Alabama once upon a time put up and maintained white crosses along the roadway shoulders at sites where there were fatalities.
Hank
 
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