The Associated Press reports from Leeville, La. — As
a young adult, Kathleen Cheramie visited her grandmother's grave in a
tree-lined cemetery where white concrete crosses dotted a plot of lush
green grass just off Louisiana Highway 1.
Now,
the cemetery in Leeville is a skeleton of its former self. The few
trees still standing have been killed by saltwater intruding from the
Gulf. Their leafless branches are suspended above marsh grass left
brown and soggy from saltwater creeping up from beneath the graves.
"It was a beautiful place to visit," said Cheramie, 67, who lives in nearby Golden Meadow. "It hurts to see it now."
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