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From: "Sue Silver" <>
Subject: [CATuolumne] Fw: World's Best Cemeteries 2003
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:16:21 -0800

Greetings,

I received a "news alert" from Forbes Magazine on the above topic. (See the
link below to read the article.)

After reading the article I felt the need to send the following letter to
the editor. If you are having trouble finding funding to help care for the
historic cemeteries of your communities, perhaps you will appreciate my
message.

Sue Silver, State Coordinator
California Saving Graves

Forbes.com
Editor:

Forbes coverage of the subject of the world's best cemeteries keyed into the
cost of burial at these places. It focused on cemeteries based upon the
most costly, prestigious, and well maintained.

While this is all well and fine for the current rich and famous, we have to
wonder why it is that Forbes has not discovered that in our own country
there are literally thousands of abandoned and neglected historic
cemeteries. These are the cemeteries of the people who built this great
nation and the states and cities of this union. Yet, in a tragic turn of
moral neglect, they are wasting away from lack of care, being bulldozed to
make way for new generations of Americans, and being ignored by elected
civil authorities.

It says a lot about America that we will expend billions of dollars to help
reconstruct Iraq but spend nothing on the care of the graves of our own
forefathers.

Sue Silver, State Coordinator
California Saving Graves

----- Original Message -----
From: "Forbes.com Alerts" <>
To: "Alerts Recipients" <>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:07 PM
Subject: World's Best Cemeteries 2003


> World's Best Cemeteries 2003
>
> On Halloween, graveyards are popular places, but both the dead and the
living fill these cemeteries all year round.
>
> Click the link below to read the full story:
> http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/31/cx_bs_1031home.html
>
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