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[quote=Anonymous]There's a book about Section 60 and also a documentary on Max. It's a very different place from the rest of Arlington National Cemetery:

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[b]You say Section 60 is one of the few places in America where it's considered normal to speak to the dead. Can you explain that?
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If you walk around Section 60, you soon learn that the rules of engagement are quite different from what you see everywhere else in the world. There's the community of the dead under the ground, and the community of the living aboveground. And people have no hesitation about carrying on conversations with dead brothers, husbands, fathers, or mothers buried there. It's like they're still alive. Why people do this I don't know. But it's maybe a way to help them come to terms with the loss of a young person and to continue having some sort of contact with them, no matter how weird it sometimes seems.
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I noticed, as any visitor to Arlington will notice, that this part of the cemetery is different, because of the rawness of emotion. People are dealing with the recent loss of a loved one or friend. It's very near the surface. It even looks different. The tombstones are the standard-issue white tombstones that you see in your mind's eye when you think of Arlington Cemetery.

But people bring an incredible array of things to place on those tombstones. They camp out there. They lay out a blanket and sleep on the graves of their brothers, husbands, or sons. They pour a drink of beer or booze—one for the person under the ground, one for the person aboveground. It has its own unique personality.[/i][/quote]

This family had every right to invite Trump. But they had no right to turn Section 60 into a campaign ad for TV and social media. They had no right to use the graves of other soldiers from Section 60.

Why this family continues to debase themselves for Trump just boggles my mind. [/quote]

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