The defining photograph of the Trump Administration

[Historic NY]

12. I'm sorry people are shocked but its been reality for hundreds of years...

Hart Island's potters field hold the remains of more than 1 million people. They can actually tell you who the first burial was. People weren't shock when thousands of Aids victims were buried here. Did they know or care? People weren't shocked to know that thousands of indigent, un-named, people are buried here each year. People weren't shocked to know that many of the unclaimed are because the poor can't afford a funeral, a cemetery plot, or even a cremation. The Two-hundred fifty dollar survivor death benefit from Social Security, isn't enough to cover final expenses. People are shocked, but at least their loved one will have his or her named recorded, here. They aren't among the rest of the un-named souls here. Some lost to ledger books and dusty records no one understands.

I'm not shocked because I spend time in cemeteries. Many small town cemeteries around the US are dotted with mass burials from all sorts of maladies, pandemics, crime, natural disasters. War is the greatest maker of mass graves, many being uncovered from centuries past. Man's inhumanity to man is the greatest producer of mass cemeteries.

People are only shocked because the have turned a blind eye to the by-product of life, death.

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