The following teaser is from an excellent article by Cristina Corbin in the September 27, 2013 edition of foxnews.com:
Hidden in the jungle-like underbrush and Japanese knotweed smothering tombstones in an abandoned Philadelphia cemetery, Sam Ricks found his calling: to uncover and restore the graves of America’s bravest — forgotten heroes dating back to the Revolutionary War, 21 of whom are Medal of Honor recipients.
Ricks and his co-workers are painstakingly chopping through over-growth with machetes at Mount Moriah Cemetery, an estimated 380-acre historic graveyard straddling Philadelphia and Yeadon, Pa., in a quest to preserve history. Buried within the decrepit cemetery are 2,300 Navy and Marines dating from the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812 all the way to the Korean and Vietnam wars, according to Ricks. The graveyard is also the final resting place for 404 Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War, a few sailors, and two Confederate prisoners of war from the Battle of Sharpsburg.
It’s good to know that there are people who are willing to render their services to helping clean up a cemetery. I know there are cemeteries that are look like jungles already because they have been neglected and because of that, these headstones or markers can no longer be found. It’s good that there are people like Ricks and his co-workers who are committed to helping clean cemeteries like the Mount Moriah.