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Originally posted by kozmo
Gang, lighten up! I already told you what this is. I spoke with a friend who works for the Dept. of Interior and I was right. They remediate the land so that they can hold more caskets per square yard than typical cemeteries. Preburial of vaults saves time and money. Notice how tightly they are packed together? That allows them to bury 2 caskets where traditional burial methods could only have one. There is no need for heavy excavation every time there is burial as they simply uncover the vault and open it up. Notice how they are already covering them back up? Come on - if these were mass graves then why are they buring them back up already?
Again, this post will be ignored because it simply negates the need for the pointless hand wringing and foolish speculation. The question has been answered and now this can be put to sleep.
Originally posted by questioningall
Because it is being questioned WHY there are so MANY being laid in the ground?
Sorry, but there are too many unanswered, valid questions, to the quantities they are laying in the ground.
Originally posted by BeyondBelow
reply to post by calihan_12
ok fisrt, WOW ur hotttttt! and in addition, they footage looks to me like it is a distribution cebter for the concrete boxes that coffins are put into , by the way they are now required by law for all bariels that there be a concrete box.
Originally posted by questioningall
reply to post by Phage
LOL
Really???
Well, I guess you missed my post above yours on how that does NOT make sense as being the reasoning.
Families will bury their members in their own plots, second most if not all families would not even consider having a member buried one on top of another.
Try as a few of you may........ of the ongoing...... move along.......
There is something to this, and the quantities are ringing bells.
Oh, I bet, most who posted here of the "move along" attitude also don't believe in Fema camps either.
[edit on 25-3-2009 by questioningall]
Originally posted by kozmo
I can't confirm this, but was told that this is SOP for federally operated cemeteries. Rather than bury the vaults (Those are the concrete boxes) each and every time they have a funeral, they use these larger vaults which can hold up to 4 caskets and they bury them en masse prior to landscaping the site. It saves land, time and money. That way when a burial is required, they simply clear the area above the vault and open the top and it is ready to go. They can fit twice as many caskets into a plot as normal so it saves on land. Grave markers are then placed atop each plot in a row. That is what I was told and it seems to make sense to me.