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A Bivouac of the Dead

Ambrose Bierce
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“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”

Ambrose Bierce book A Bivouac of the Dead

A Bivouac of the Dead, The New York American, November 22, 1903

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