Remember that while the meat is being grilled and interstates are jammed by returning vacationers, this is a day to recall the passing of so many in the history of the United States. Even if you don't agree with the purpose of the particular conflict in which they died, they were still people with loved ones, people who loved their country, and often forgotten, people who saw their comrades in arms suffer and die along with them. Paying a visit to a military cemetery is a very personal way of remembering the fallen. Walk among the ordered rows of white stones, read the names of people that might have otherwise meant nothing to you, and perhaps be the only one alive still thinking of them today. You will also find tombs of foreign nationals, including many Canadians and Mexicans, who enlisted in the United States armed forces or served alongside them as allies and wished to be at rest among their friends and fellow soldiers.
This is Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, located on Point Loma. It overlooks both the Pacific Ocean and San Diego Bay. Buried here are souls who died as far back as the Mexican-American war, though the cemetery was not made a national cemetery until 1882. It is one of the oldest on the west coast.
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