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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gatorbaiter" data-source="post: 297506" data-attributes="member: 999">When I was young we visited what I think was the Fort Wallace Post cemetery in western Kansas. It had a lot of unique graves where they recorded the deaths, like scalped, shot, or such. I seem to recall one grave marker saying the man was murdered by another guy, and the grave next to him was the other guy and his marker recorded him as being hanged for the first man's murder. I've always wanted to go back and see if my memory is actually correct. I googled the cemetery and it did have pictures of some markers but not those exact ones.   My mother has told me some interesting stories about our small church cemetery. My great uncle is buried their. He was working as an electrician at Pearl Harbor in 41' and watched the attack from a hillside cave overlooking the harbor. One of the guys he was with went back into the cave to get out of the way and was killed by something ricocheting back into the cave. He never had anything good to say about the Japanese even till he died at 101 a few years ago. He did brag about spending a good portion of the war working at Pearl, and living in a house right on Waikiki beach.  Another uncle lost part of his foot in an accident when he was really young and they buried it in a corner of one of the family graves. So now he likes to say he has one foot in the grave.  There is also a number of young people buried there from a hundred years ago back when times were a lot tougher and medical help less reliable. Also a young man killed when he tried to stop a friend from committing suicide and was accidentally killed.   A lot of history in those places, some sad and lot just plain interesting.</blockquote>

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