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These weren’t unusual symbols—they can be found on gravestones of the time—but the skulls on pirate flags were shorn of the customary wings symbolizing the dead’s ascent to Heaven.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Johnson started inscribing veterans’ gravestones almost by accident.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Until late 2019 when the Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club raised funds to purchase and install a gravestone, DuncansoDun was buried in an unmarked grave in Monroe, Mich., where his family had roots as carpenters.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2024
The opening line of the class action lawsuit summed up the injustice by quoting a line etched on a Vietnam War veteran’s gravestone in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
—Anne Marshall-Chalmers, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Johnson started inscribing veterans’ gravestones almost by accident.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Until late 2019 when the Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club raised funds to purchase and install a gravestone, DuncansoDun was buried in an unmarked grave in Monroe, Mich., where his family had roots as carpenters.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2024
The opening line of the class action lawsuit summed up the injustice by quoting a line etched on a Vietnam War veteran’s gravestone in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
—Anne Marshall-Chalmers, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 8 Sep. 2024.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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