{"id":130935,"date":"2024-09-03T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130935"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T16:57:56","slug":"one-of-my-favourite-articles-over-the-last-two-months-washington-post-their-graves-were-marked-only-by-numbers-she-fought-to-find-their-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130935","title":{"rendered":"One of my favourite articles over the last two months&#8211;(Washington Post) Their graves were marked only by numbers. She fought to find their names."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Annapolis historian Janice Hayes-Williams remembers visiting this graveyard with her uncle, George Phelps Jr., in 2001. As they wandered through it that day, he keptmuttering to himself. \u201cJesus. &#8230; Jesus. &#8230; Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was overwhelming to my uncle and me,\u201d Hayes-Williams, 67, recalled on a hot July morning as she walked past the numbered markers. \u201cThe word that came to mind was \u2018disposable.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe both kept saying, \u2018A cemetery of patients and no names? No names?\u2019 It was more than unbelievable,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is not how you treat human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/08\/29\/crownsville-hospital-cemetery-memorial\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI0OTkwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI2MzcyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjQ5OTA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImZhNTljM2IyLWYzM2UtNGQ3YS1iMjFiLTNlMjljZDBjOTVhNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9kYy1tZC12YS8yMDI0LzA4LzI5L2Nyb3duc3ZpbGxlLWhvc3BpdGFsLWNlbWV0ZXJ5LW1lbW9yaWFsLyJ9.EeWlle0yi5nVZNlq5LXqEPkm0T4NfCMy5ao9tLKM8C4\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Their graves were marked only by numbers. She fought to find their names. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vFukMCQVze\">https:\/\/t.co\/vFukMCQVze<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeHeim\/status\/1829969729496498346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annapolis historian Janice Hayes-Williams remembers visiting this graveyard with her uncle, George Phelps Jr., in 2001. As they wandered through it that day, he keptmuttering to himself. \u201cJesus. &#8230; Jesus. &#8230; Jesus.\u201d \u201cIt was overwhelming to my uncle and me,\u201d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130935\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,438,133,120,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130938,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130935\/revisions\/130938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}