Jack, Hope you're not contracted with the crematory in Georgia. Rich >From: Jb502000@aol.com >Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Archeologists and cemetery preservation >Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 02:44:40 EST > >In a message dated 2/17/02 11:40:18 AM US Eastern Standard Time, >andimac@oz.net writes: > > > > > > It is my opinion that archeologists are interested in burials in a > > historical sense but are not interested in current cemetery >preservation. > > One is in the past, the other is current. I might call an archeologist >if > > I > > needed to know if there is a historical Native American burial, but I >would > > not call an archeologist to conserve a stone. > > > > -------------- > > Andrea D. MacDonald "Andi" > > andimac@oz.net > > > > > Andi, > you said exactly what I feel about the Ancient Native Americans and what >I >call modern man, from the last 200 odd years. My question is WHY are they >different. >And If you can't disturb a "Modern Burial " site, how can you dig up a >Native >American and Cart them off for studies. Study WHAT. They died and were >buried. No one should be able to remove anything buried in a grave site, >just >to find out WHAT ? When a Burial Site is Discovered, LET IT BE. For 68 >years >I have heard that a Burial Site is Hallowed Ground. Why can't people honor >that and work around them. I;m sorry I won't be around when these Large >Beautiful cemeteries run out of money, or ground and Grow up with Brush. > It will happen, not today, not tomorrow but maybe a Hundred >years from now just like the small ones we worry about now. They never >dreamed anything would happen to them either. My wife and I are going to >be >Creamated. No one will ever have to worry about us. And $5,000 dollar >stones >wont have to be bulldozed when the area we will be scattered at is graded >off. And they can put in a Airport, Factory, House, etc, etc. WE WONT CARE. >Thanks for the story Andi, I for one understand that you make sense >Jack E. Briles Sr. >jb502000@aol.com > > >==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== >Quote from William Gladstone (1809-1897), three-time Prime Minister of >England >and Victorian contemporary of Benjamin Disraeli: > "Show me the manner in which a nation or community > cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical > exactness the tender mercies of its people, their > respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty > to high ideals." > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com