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A Visit to the Wright Brothers at Woodland Cemetery

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After we gave Lukey and Kenzie a relatively short campus tour at the University of Dayton , we drove the few blocks over to Woodland Cemetery.  Kenzie was a bit perplexed that we (or anyone, for that matter) would be visiting a cemetery but I knew this was a place I wanted to visit.  Sheila and I missed a visit to this cemetery the last two times we were in Dayton so I wanted to get here this time.  It is right next to the UD campus so it would have been silly for us to skip this visit since we were staying at UD.   I have always held a very deep interest in the Wright brothers since elementary school.  In fact, one of my first research essays in elementary school was about these two brothers.  I've done larger research papers on them in high school and college.  My father had purchased a few small books about the Wright brothers at my request (we regularly were given books that we chose).  By the time I was assigned to Wright-Patterson Air F...