"Larry L" wrote in message
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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 )

When I was in Ecuador in the Summer of '96, I saw those types of memorials
(although much more elaborate) on the roadsides of the cliffs leading over
the Andes Mountains. Folks lose their lives in the Andes by the bus loads!

This site is pretty neat: http://tinyurl.com/2acabt keep clicking thru and
you will get to some amazing switchback roads!

Op