1. At the gravesite on the outskirts of Tirana, the casket was lowered late Saturday afternoon into a grave on a slope covered with wild rosemary and thyme. 2. At the cemetery, Daisy recalled, the casket was lowered into a grave partly filled with seep water that gurgled and bubbled as it covered the coffin. 3. He waited quietly as workers from the burial vault company slowly lowered the caskets into the ground. 4. Minutes after the ceremony, the family left quickly, and as a pale sun broke through the afternoon clouds, grave workers lowered the casket into the ground. 5. Mrs. Rabin wept on the shoulder of her daughter as the casket was lowered into the ground, and military officers buried it with vessels of soil. 6. Simple pine caskets were lowered into a common grave dug in the shadow of Mount Merapi. 7. Under the watchful eyes of heavily armed soldiers, each casket was lowered into the earth. 8. Tuesday Jordanian soldiers dressed in khaki uniforms and red-checkered kaffiyahs draped wooden coffins with Jordanian flags and lowered the caskets into the ground as military trumpets blasted. |