Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Jun 21 2007
Who was it?
If there is really a skull and it was used in Skull and Bones, but was not the skull of Geronimo, whose skull was it? It belonged to someone's family member or friend. We have a tomb in remembrance of unknown soldiers that we treat with great reverence. It's sad to me that some anonymous person's remains might have been part of some fraternity prank, just because they had been buried in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Humans often have strange value systems when it comes to the remains of the dead. Most people would never think of digging up Aunt Carol a few years after her death (except for criminal investigations or medical research), but if she's been gone for a thousand years she becomes free game for archeologists. Of course, Aunt Carol was likely laid to rest in a casket. If someone digs up the skeletal remains of a body in the raw ground, the death could have been long ago. Or, it could have been someone who died alone in the wilderness, or who was murdered and hastily covered over with dirt. In any event, if there is a skull, it belonged, at some point, to a living, breathing person who didn't ask to be part of a fraternity joke for some good old boys.
posted at: 10:28 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
If there is really a skull and it was used in Skull and Bones, but was not the skull of Geronimo, whose skull was it? It belonged to someone's family member or friend. We have a tomb in remembrance of unknown soldiers that we treat with great reverence. It's sad to me that some anonymous person's remains might have been part of some fraternity prank, just because they had been buried in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Humans often have strange value systems when it comes to the remains of the dead. Most people would never think of digging up Aunt Carol a few years after her death (except for criminal investigations or medical research), but if she's been gone for a thousand years she becomes free game for archeologists. Of course, Aunt Carol was likely laid to rest in a casket. If someone digs up the skeletal remains of a body in the raw ground, the death could have been long ago. Or, it could have been someone who died alone in the wilderness, or who was murdered and hastily covered over with dirt. In any event, if there is a skull, it belonged, at some point, to a living, breathing person who didn't ask to be part of a fraternity joke for some good old boys.
posted at: 10:28 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
