After spending many days in Biloxi and watching Youtube videos of before and after Hurricane Katrina – we decide to go to Biloxi National Cemetery. Well, we didn’t really decide to go (we didn’t know it existed) but – we saw a sign and followed it ….
We drove in and started looking around. I was taken aback.
I remember texting my mom and it was a simple text with a pic – the text read, “This is the closest I’ll ever get to Arlington National Cemetery and the feeling would be the same.”
Sometimes I have to see something before I’m touched enough to look it up. I was touched enough to Youtube the devastation in Biloxi, MS from Hurricane Katrina (2005) and appreciate the town much more now – that I’m here and seeing it for myself.
I was definitely humbled in the presence of these headstones and grave sites and was curious of placement of the markers and who was laid to rest here or memorialized here …. (I’ve since learned a lot more about through this site – National Cemetery Components). And I looked it up on Youtube as well. Not to mention we spent a lot of time reading headstones and markers.
I have no words other than humbled (and sad and thankful and grateful) to express the feelings I had here ….
Thank you to all our veterans – active, retired, disabled, reserve. This country could never have been what it is without you and your families!
I stood in this spot heavy hearted for their families. Names and dates of all ranges… a picture does capture a thousand words and emotions – all at once – just look at the number of headstones, all in line, at this small National Cemetery in Bilioxi, MS.
I watched my husband slowly walk by and through. Looking over all he could. He would walk and stop, walk and stop – stop longer…. look longer… read… walk, stop, walk, and stop again. I didn’t ask him what was on his mind – I let him do his own thing.
It was one of the most humbling experiences ever. I think for both of us. Some of the headstones reminded us of how lucky we are… some of the dates from birth to death were just a few mere years of life.
Thank you also to my ARMY husband for his service to this country!