Real Life/Tear Jerker/Memorials and Epitaphs: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) work->trope |
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9) |
||
| Line 310: | Line 310: | ||
* The Swiss [[wikipedia:Lion Monument|Lion of Lucerne]] is a pretty powerful monument. Erected to commemorate the Swiss guards who were massacred during the French Revolution, it has been described as one of the most moving pieces of stone. |
* The Swiss [[wikipedia:Lion Monument|Lion of Lucerne]] is a pretty powerful monument. Erected to commemorate the Swiss guards who were massacred during the French Revolution, it has been described as one of the most moving pieces of stone. |
||
* [[Graham Chapman]]'s death. Despite John Cleese's [[The Fun in Funeral|eulogy]] and the rendition of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", you can tell the other Pythons were all really sad. |
* [[Graham Chapman]]'s death. Despite John Cleese's [[The Fun in Funeral|eulogy]] and the rendition of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", you can tell the other Pythons were all really sad. |
||
* Somewhere, snuggly placed in the center of England, is the [http://www.thenma.org.uk/index.aspx National Memorial Arboretum], a beautiful grove of planted trees dedicated to all those who died in the service of their country. Ranging from the heart-breaking [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Shot_at_Dawn_memorial.JPG/800px-Shot_at_Dawn_memorial.JPG Shot at Dawn], a sculpture of a seventeen year old boy shot for 'cowardice', to the inspiring [[wikipedia:Polish Forces War Memorial:National Memorial Arboretum|Polish Forces War Memorial]], a dedication to those Poles who served the UK, it's generally a wonderful place...until you see the centerpiece. The Armed Forces Memorial. With sixteen thousand names already inscribed, it's a heartbreaking thing, not only because there's fifteen thousand names waiting to be inscribed, but also because of the dedication and love put into making it - this Troper, who hopes to join the Army in the near future, the entire place is right up there with The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier... |
* Somewhere, snuggly placed in the center of England, is the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130910140917/http://www.thenma.org.uk/index.aspx National Memorial Arboretum], a beautiful grove of planted trees dedicated to all those who died in the service of their country. Ranging from the heart-breaking [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Shot_at_Dawn_memorial.JPG/800px-Shot_at_Dawn_memorial.JPG Shot at Dawn], a sculpture of a seventeen year old boy shot for 'cowardice', to the inspiring [[wikipedia:Polish Forces War Memorial:National Memorial Arboretum|Polish Forces War Memorial]], a dedication to those Poles who served the UK, it's generally a wonderful place...until you see the centerpiece. The Armed Forces Memorial. With sixteen thousand names already inscribed, it's a heartbreaking thing, not only because there's fifteen thousand names waiting to be inscribed, but also because of the dedication and love put into making it - this Troper, who hopes to join the Army in the near future, the entire place is right up there with The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier... |
||
* This Troper recently visited her aunt in St. Joseph, MO. While there, we went out to a cemetery about 40 minutes away across the Kansas border, thanks to this Troper and her mother's fascination with old cemeteries. After viewing the main attraction- a huge memorial built by a man for his wife, after she passed, which was tearjerking in and of itself- we wandered the cemetery a little... and came across Babyland. 3 rows of graves for babies, most of them not even a year old. What really killed this Troper was when her baby cousin (well, her cousin's son) looked up at the Troper's mom with tears in his eyes and said "Someday my mommy is going to be here and I'll never see her again." ''Ouch''. |
* This Troper recently visited her aunt in St. Joseph, MO. While there, we went out to a cemetery about 40 minutes away across the Kansas border, thanks to this Troper and her mother's fascination with old cemeteries. After viewing the main attraction- a huge memorial built by a man for his wife, after she passed, which was tearjerking in and of itself- we wandered the cemetery a little... and came across Babyland. 3 rows of graves for babies, most of them not even a year old. What really killed this Troper was when her baby cousin (well, her cousin's son) looked up at the Troper's mom with tears in his eyes and said "Someday my mommy is going to be here and I'll never see her again." ''Ouch''. |
||
* On an unknown grave in Ireland: |
* On an unknown grave in Ireland: |
||