[lbo-talk] A very random query on the religious history of World War I military graves

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 14:55:06 PDT 2014


What does it mean when the headstone of a British or Imperial soldier omits any religious symbol?

Here's an example of what I mean, between a Christian and a Jew in the Gaza War Cemetery:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegaza/13631600594

I saw enough of them to make me curious. Some kind of secular humanism or freethought?

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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