October 5, 2008

We went to Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn.
We went to visit mom for the Anniversary of her death. She died on the 4Th but we went the next day.
It was a last minute thing.
Since "Alex" called dad on the same day at 2:14 pm and our dad didn't tell us until 2:30 pm.
"Alex" came over at 2:41 pm to take us.
Which didn't leave enough time for me to get dress nicely, anyway, we went there in "Alex's" car and baby "Ron" was there too.
When we got there we put down flowers, candles, and each of us said a prayer.
We said our goodbyes,Lil "Ron" wanted to understand what was going on and "Alex" told him Grandma is dead and why she is.
"Ron" cried while he said goodbye.
I almost teared up.
We walked away until "Alex" wanted to check an monument to the unidentified mothers and children who worked in a factory that got burned down and killed them.
Which started the Workers Compensation and started "Alex's" career.
We got in his car and he drove us to our home where he and "Ron" hang out and then went home.

Here's an article about it:

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Near Pathside and Memory Gardens is a tall slab on which a woman is shown kneeling in despair. This marks a plot for victims of a terrible New York disaster.

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out inside the locked exit doors of the Triangle Shirtwaist clothing factory located high in a ten-story building in Greenwich Village. (A woman’s shirt or blouse tailored like a man’s shirt, the shirtwaist was popular women’s clothing at that time.) Within twenty minutes, one hundred forty-six people – most of them Jewish immigrant women – were dead either from the fire or by throwing themselves out windows onto the sidewalks below. The victims of the fire whose remains were not claimed by friends or family were given a funeral attended by an estimated four hundred thousand mourners in a pouring rain, and then buried in several cemeteries. In the Evergreens’ burial ledger for 1911, listed on April 5 under “U” (for Unknown) are eight interments (numbered from 214,654 to 214,661). These were an uncertain number of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire who were burned beyond recognition: an “unknown male,” six “unknown females,” and (most devastating) “several persons” so badly burned that not even their gender could be identified. One of the victims was subsequently identified and her remains were transferred to her family’s plot at Mount Zion Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery. Originally interred elsewhere in the grounds, today the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire at the Evergreens lie under the kneeling woman, a statement both of mourning and of dedication to the safer work places that were mandated by state and federal laws after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.