Amen!!!! Jack Briles is our Hero! You need something done? Ask Jack Briles! We need more Jack Briles in Indiana who are as dedicated as Jack in saving our pioneer cemeteries. Sorry, Mr. Curtis, as much as I love hiking through the wild flowers and weeds at parks, when I visit a cemetery I expect it to be mowed. My ancestors spent many hours a day hoeing weeds (or wildflowers) from their gardens, fields, yards AND cemeteries. Sorry you feel Flamed and insulted, but Mr. Briles has had to fight a long time for every inch of pioneer cemeteries saved here in Indiana. We admire his dedication and understand his frustrations and, quite frankly, most of us sit back and expect Jack Briles to speak for us. Mr. Curtis, you, too, deserve your viewpoint and I'm sure most of us agree with you that there is a place for prairie grass and wildflowers. But NOT in our cemeteries, please! Pat Bryant, Indianapolis Brian Smead wrote: > > WOW, you really like to stir the fire up, don't you? How many on this list > Lois? 160? 170? Maybe you should just remove 95% of us because that's how > many probably agree with Jack. Mr. Curtis, if the DNR ever tryed to make > "MY" cemetery into a natural habitat, I'll be there weekly with a lawn mower > and gallons of weed killer. > End of subject for me. I'm not into tree hugging or weed planting. > Brian E. Smead > Terre Haute, Indiana > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Howell Curtis" <hccu@voyager.net> > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 9:43 PM > Subject: [INPCRP] Flamed > > > Dear Ms. Mauk, > > > > I was quite surprised that my first post to this forum elicited such a > > response. Apology aside, Mr. Briles' remarks were insulting, if not > > downright abusive. > > He has violated the rules of conduct that members of this forum agreed > > to abide > > by when they signed up and should be removed from the list. > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Howell Curtis > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > "Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you > have." > > Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know.