I nearly drove past the old cemetary, but I saw the flags and the geraniums and had to stop. The grave belongs to Lt. Paul Moore, who died at age 88 in 1799. A freshly planted geranium and an American flag flew next the grave of each veteran. After 200 years, they were not forgotten. I thought about these veterans. Did they die in the war? I surmised they lived in the town of Princeton MA and died between 1790 and 1830. I pictured them as old friends, neighbors, and drinking buddies who went to the pub and told stories about beating the British back to England. I wondered about who wasn't buried there because they were buried on the site of their last battle.

The tombstone reads, "Born of the earth, to earth we return again. A life auspicious is a life of pain. And when we fall we fall again to rise. Our star descends & lights us to y^e skies."