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Chuck Hinman, IJMA No. 015: Small Town Cemeteries It's Just Me Again 015: Small Town Cemeteries, edited 15 May 2010 by Robert H. Stone. The next earlier Chuck Hinman story Waving. A forgotten gesture? Is Chuck Hinman your favorite Sunday with CM columnist, as many tell us? If so, we hope you'll drop him a line by email. Reader comments to CM are appreciated, as are emails directly to Mr. Hinman at: charles.hinman@sbcglobal.net By Chuck Hinman What in the world is there to say about "Small Town Cemeteries" except to say that when you have seen one, you have seen them all! Not quite, Jessie! You are not going to put Liberty, Nebraska's cemetery in that classification! You have to see it, and know about its volunteers, to believe it! I suggest you tour it on any Memorial Day -- when the hundreds of peonies, pink, white, and wine are in full bloom, when the cemetery lawn is immaculately groomed, and when the Liberty Cemetery Board's efforts to receive as a donation all the flags presented to grieving family members of the decedents ... and use them to proudly line the driveway through the cemetery! With a good stiff wind blowing the flags -- it is awesome and a proud reminder of the valor of some of Liberty's finest. Two of the flags snapping in the brisk Nebraska breeze represent the memory of the Gleeton boys, Alvin and Charles, both lost in World War 2. They were the sons of Liberty's dentist many years ago, cigar-chomping Doc Gleeton. The awesome beauty of this cemetery didn't just happen. The story of why it is a breath-taking experience lies in the dedication of simple people like my brother Bob who spent his life farming a few miles from the cemetery. Small towns like Liberty don't generate enough money to provide niceties seen in places like Grand Island, Lincoln, and Omaha. If these small bergs are going to have anything such as a superbly beautiful cemetery, such as Liberty's, you are going to see a ton of volunteer work on the part of interested citizens. You rang? Enter Bob Hinman. Over the years when Bob was on the cemetery board I have seen him do the following in connection with funerals of Liberty residents and friends:
They know how to honor their forbears! But it doesn't just happen! It takes work! I am now an old man. I have lived all over the world in much larger and prestigious places but none come close to comparing to Liberty, Nebraska, my home town! Editorial Note: In the original version, Chuck wrote that Liberty, Nebraska's population was "74 and one old grouch - my brother Bob." The 2000 census total was 86. One 2009 estimate is 241. This story was posted on 2010-05-16 06:53:56
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