On Feb 1, 1:56 pm, "Larry L" wrote:
A headline today in my local paper about the guy who got drunk and stoned
and managed to kill five guys on their way to work a few months ago ....
forced the image of the five neat crosses erected by someone ( family I
assume ) next to the country road where the "accident" happened, about a
mile from here.

It seems such crosses are everywhere now ( in the West, at least ) ... try
the drive from West Yellowstone to Bozeman ... but I don't remember them
from many years back. Any guesses ( real information OK, too :-) as to
why they have increased in usage?

Larry L ( who wants any memorial that might be erected for me to be in a
place I loved, not the one where I suffered the last time )

They're here now in the east, as well. You're right, they didn't used
to be everyplace. My impression is that they're an Hispanic import,
but this feeling may just be because the first place I remember seeing
them was in a largely Spanish speaking village in New Mexico. (Not
that those particular Spanish speakers were imports, the village is
centuries old.)