PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bruce Hannon
TI  - The Forgetting Rate: Evidence From a Country Cemetery
AID  - 10.3368/lj.9.1.16
DP  - 1990 Mar 20
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 16--21
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/9/1/16.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/9/1/16.full
AB  - When the age of flowered graves on Memorial Day is compared with the total number of graves of that age, the rate at which people seem to drop from remembrance is found. The rate for 1986 and 1987 is about 2 percent per year; that is, 2 percent of those graves still flowered will cease to be flowered the ensuing year. The flowering of graves seems to be reduced more quickly for males than females.