Whenever we find something, dont we all think about WHO was this person? Would we have been friends? What were the circumstances involved in the loss? Heres some pics of a memorial left on one of the beaches last summer. The write up in the paper gave some details about the guy, and what transpired. I will always wonder if I find a ring out there if it was associated with this event. When somebody drowns out here, seems everybody holds hands and goes out into the surf to try to locate the person, sometimes theres over 100 people holding hands out in heavy surf, typically a furious rip or undertow, looking for somebody. The cross is gone now, washed out by the winter storms, but now in the early morning when I'm down there alone, I cant help but think about the guy, several other people over the years, two of my cousins and countless others whe have met their end in this Lake. I think about that whenever I see a cross along the road as well, what happened here? Could I have made a difference if I was here at the time? Detecting puts us in touch with the past event, makes us a part of it, whether its a 2000 yr old roman coin, a minie ball, or just some clad. Something happened here, and now I'm a part of it.
Mud