It has been a quiet but not quite dead day at Buffalo Grove. Normally they provide a rectangular table for me, but all those tables were being used for the vast amount of end-of-year testing being done this week. So they gave me a square table, which is perfect for our cemetery display.
I should have labeled it clearly as the combat deaths of people from Illinois 2001-2018. The other half, of course, is being displayed at another school.
One gentle student told me he was sorry for my loss. I told him it wasn't my loss, but everyone's loss. He assured me he had no intention of joining the military: he plans to become a cartoonist. He doesn't want to end up under a military grave stone.
A security guy told me, well, they signed up for it. Buy we agreed that probably none of them signed up to die.
One student recognized the cemetery as a place he'd been recently when his grandfather died. I'm not sure if he got the point we were trying to make about combat deaths.
A teacher came by and gazed at the cemetery. I explained the tombstones represented about half the combat deaths of people from Illinois 2001-2018. She actually took the time to read some tombstones. She said she was not aware of this (I guess that there'd been so many losses from ).
Lynne