Ecclesiastes and Dead Presidents

These are some photos from my personal travels over the years.

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The grave marker of Thomas Jefferson, on the grounds of Monticello.

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The sarcophagi of President and Mrs. James A. Garfield, in the great memorial inside Cleveland’s Lakeview Cemetery.

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The sarcophagi of President and Mrs. William McKinley, Canton, Ohio.

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The sarcophagi of President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding, Marion, Ohio.

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The grave markers of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.

Not to be too morbid, but  . . . only the first man died peacefully in his bed. Three were victims of assassins, and the other of a sudden heart attack. “There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death . . . For man also knoweth not his time” (Ecclesiastes 8:8, 9:12).

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