Lafayette

When I ever ride Bart from Walnut Creek to San Francisco. I pass by the city of Lafayette. In Lafayette right by the Bart line in the hills they have a monument with a lot of white crosses. The crosses are put their for every person that dies fighting on the American side on Iraq. I see them every time I pass by and think of what a good choice to put the there. I wonder if the ones who chose that spot know who the city is named after.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_marquis_de_Lafayette.

In American history classes they never tell you about Lafayette. An American Revolution hero. A Frenchmen. Without him, maybe the French would have maybe never have gotten involved in the American Revolution. A lot of cities across America are named after him. I like to think that Lafayette would be proud to have a war monument there for the soldiers who gave their lives in a city named in his honor.