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DULUTH, Minn. - Walking into a cemetery, you might see gravestones in the shape of benches. A cross is drawn on a monument in what looks like lipstick. One has baby blue yarn wrapped around it.

For many years the Daughters of the American Revolution have marked the graves of Revolutionary War veterans with markers as shown above. It was probably a bronze marker such as this that once ...