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

* This troper went with his Cross Country team to the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial while in the area for a race. I'll be honest, I was having trouble from the first room where they detailed how an entire day-care center was caught in the blast, but I was surrounded by my peers, so I kept it together. However, we later came to a room filled with pictures of those who were killed, with personal items placed by the family for each one. I completely lost it when I saw a picture of a young man in some kind of military uniform, and the only item in his case was a gold-plated Star Trek symbol. I ''don't even like Star Trek'', but it really hit me how this guy had interests and an entire life, all gone. Forever.

** For this Troper, the museum itself was more interesting than sad, until the room with the personal belongings. One display had some broken coffee mugs from a collection that a woman working in the next building kept in her office. She didn't die, she didn't even really get hurt, she just had stuff knocked around by the shock of the blast. Still, since [[This Troper]] collects coffee mugs, those coffee mugs made it ''real'', like a punch to the gut, and he had to go take a minute in the corner of the room to collect himself.

* The Taj Mahal. According to legend it was built by an Indian monarch out of grief for the passing of one of his favorite wives.

** He was Shah Jahan, and the wife he built it for was Mumtaz Mahal. Even though he had more than one wife, she was his Empress.