For those of you who are looking for stories about good people doing good things, look no further than Joel Parry of West Long Branch. Last week, a local paper called the Atlanticville published an article detailing the selfless work that Parry is doing at two local cemeteries.
I strongly encourage you all to click the link above and read the article. In short, Parry volunteers his time and much physical effort to restoring two local cemeteries that were overgrown and unkempt. The article talks about how no one really knows whose responsibility it was to maintain these final resting places, but Parry took on the job without thinking twice.
And what a job he has done. He’s pulled out debris, empty bottles of alcohol, even a mattress! What I find to be most inspiring about Parry’s efforts is that he intends to care for the neglected headstones. From the article:
“First, I want to finish getting everything cleaned, then I plan on remounting and resetting the headstones, and then I will wash all the headstones once everything else is in place,” he said.
Who does this on his own time and with no provocation or connection to the cemeteries? A good guy, that’s who.
This town, state, and nation need more good men committing random acts of selflessness like Joel Parry in West Long Branch.
