Riverside Cemetery on Veteran's Day, 2007

stepping into the past - Civil War Veterans

Denver skyline in the distance

The stone markers are not in even rows like more recent military graves - different heights, twisted this way or that, some straight, some leaning...

So many stories are told while walking and reading the remembrances - wondering about the rows of "Unknown US Soldiers" there are so many...

Melvin died a prisoner of war at age 23

life has gone on without them