Day 73 - Veterans Day

I have to admit, I've always enjoyed walking through cemeteries.  They tend to be peaceful places with lots of interesting and historical things to see.  I couldn't think of a more appropriate way to honor some of our veterans than to walk among them.  While I found headstones and markers for veterans from the Spanish American War to our current conflicts in the middle east (and everything in between), I was struck by the ones pictured below.

While you may be able to read the writing on the nearest marker in the picture, you probably can't make out everything on the far marker.  The amazing thing is that a wife and husband who both served in the military are resting here together.  James Hunter was born in November of 1915, he served in the US Navy in WWII and died in 1988.  It made me wonder where they met.  Had they always known each other or did they meet because of their military experience?  Several years ago, I read Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation and as I stood among these soldiers, I envisioned this couple to be like so many others who were honorably captured in that book - "men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today."