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My first visit to Jurby Church.

Virginia is steep in history from the birth of our nation through the war between the states and Richmond is no exception. This is a picture from Hollywood Cemetery, the burial place of two United States Presidents, the President of the Confederacy (Jefferson Davis), 6 Governors of Virginia, Jeb Stuart, George Pickett, John Randolph and more than 18,000 confederate soldiers (3,000 of whom were brought back from Gettysburg).

My hometown of Thornaby has a cemetery that contains a small dedicated war graves section, a point worth noting is that it contains a number of German aircrew that where shot down in the area and buried with full military honours

I deliberately choose a narrow DOF, to highlight just the German headstones for the purpose of this image