Erosion will no longer impact the neat and tidy lines of grave markers at the San Francisco National Cemetery. They've designed subterranean planter boxes with sockets for the headstones, to eliminate the constant need to adjust them.
SF Gate shares:
The grass was killed, and one by one, the 28,000 grave markers at the San Francisco National Cemetery were pulled from the ground, each laid at the feet of the body below.
While all that might sound disrespectful to the dead, it's actually a $15 million effort to honor those buried there by ensuring that their headstones are level and plumb, and not subject to the shifting sands of time.
