Real Life/Tear Jerker/Memorials and Epitaphs: Difference between revisions

** If that needs to be sadder, consider that the poppies were only growing because the artillery fire was so intense that it had turned up lower levels of dirt, and thus the poppies only grew there during (and shortly after) the war.

** [[Dark Insanity 13|This troper]] ''lives'' in his hometown, and never hears the end of that poem on Rememberance Day. It makes her heart drop to her stomach every time.

* [[Bunnyofdoom|This troper]] recently went to the Canadian war museum when it was near deserted, to see an exhibit on just how bad the trenches were for Canadian soldiers. He had to leave the exhibit halfway through, because he had started to break down and cry for the first time in over a decade.

** This troper went to see the exhibit on eugenics and then the rest of the museum afterward. She left because after the first, the rest seemed a bit too cheerful.