tombstones

Over the last year, Los Angeles has seen a surge of thefts of copper, brass and other metals from street lights, tombstones, fire hydrants and transit rail lines, among other places.

In Section 60, young widows can be seen using clippers and scissors to groom the grass around their husbands’ tombstones as lots of children run about.

Before a field dotted with the small, white tombstones of the dead US servicemembers, the president warned "the autocrats of the world are watching closely to see what happens in Ukraine".

The tombstones in the graveyard were not the only signs that people worshipped there centuries ago.

The UK government's 1987 Aids awareness advert - with actor John Hurt's haunting delivery of "it's a deadly disease with no known cure" to a backdrop of falling tombstones - added to the public's perception of HIV.