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've become quite common here in New England over the past 10/15
years. The first one I remember seeing was a cross erected on a state
highway in honor of a state trooper who was killed on that spot, hit
by a drunk driver, while giving roadsise assistance to a motorist. I
think it was put there by his family.

All this reminds me of an old song by a homeboy, Dick Curless of
Barre, MA., who had something of a carrer in Nashville thirty odd
years ago, and wrote a song lamenting the dangers of driving logging
trucks in the Haynesville Woods area of Maine. IIRC, the refrain was:
"There's a stretch of road up north in Maine. that's never, ever, ever
seen a smile." "If they buried all the truckers lost in those woods,
Theyr'ed be a tombstone every mile"