Last summer when I was out visiting my Mom, I met a friend of hers from church, Brother Farrini. We talked and he told me his father was killed in WWII and buried in the memorial cemetery in San Bruno. I told him I had been to that cemetery and would go again and try to find his father's stone.
It took almost a whole year, but we finally did it this Memorial Day. Finding the stone ended up being a good story. We drove into the cemetery and it was pretty busy with people and cars. We lucked into a parking spot near the center of the cemetery. However, we had no idea how we would find Brother Farrini's father's stone. Will found a list online with a number and letter marker. That was a big help but we didn't have any idea how the cemetery was laid out. So we just started walking into the cemetery from our parking spot. When we checked the first two stones, they had a letter C. The Farrini stone was in the C section! Everyone started walking out checking numbers, the numbers weren't always in order. A minute later Lorien called out that she had found the stone! It was awesome!
From our random parking spot we were the closest we could have been to the right spot! You can see how big this cemetery is! It would have been very needle and haystacky. We were directed to the right place. It was awesome.
After visiting the grave site we went to Beep's Burgers for our holiday cook out. It was a great day!
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