Memorial cars

[vilakins]

While I'm here (and LJ is), this is something else I've been meaning to ask about.

A couple of months ago I was following a car with a man's full name on the rear window and something in a curving line above it which I couldn't read till I got closer. In a very fancy script it said, "In loving memory of". OK, that was weird, but then a couple of weeks ago I saw another car with a much more readable sans-serif "In memory of" followed by another name. Both names were fairly standard English ones FWIW.

Has anyone else seem this sort of thing and/or know anything about it? Is it a new thing or something old which has just surfaced here?

And now I'm off to a barbecue with some people from Greg's work. I hope some of the people I know relatively well are there.

Comments

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

As for why Americans aren't good at this: when a teacher tried to teach critical thinking to a group of eighth graders, she got in trouble. The parents were complaining because the children were asking questions in church and at home. Authoritarians want obedient children, not smart ones, and America is overrun with a religious and economic authoritarian view.

I get very angry.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's certainly a very conservative society; strange when once it was so go-ahead.