Some people spend their lives entirely rooted at home, and near home. Others, for whatever reason, cross the ocean sea to live in a new land. What is cut in stone is sometimes the choice of those memoralised, and sometimes of those left behind. Many immigrants came to America. Even when one becomes an American, he often has an attachment to the old country, and wants others to know. Sometimes it is seems just natural to add the place of birth when it is not local.At Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, the closest ethnic neighborhood was Italian. Many Italians are buried at Lake View. Most Italians are Catholic. The Church heavily influenced Catholics to only be buried in Catholic cemeteries. Wandering stones it is a juxtaposition of sociology. There are many stones signaling masonic membership. Catholics are not supposed to be Masons, and Masons have had an historical animus to Catholicism. In this graveyard they are both to be easily found.
Some come to America, and that moment of arrival is commemorated. It is odd, that the place of origin is not mentioned. Is this a patriotic statement? or a political statement?
