A small marker headstone, flush to the ground, requires much less space than an upright stone.
Needle and thread, buffalo, and orchard grass spread like a billowing counterpane around the small headstones.
And, of course, there are rows of small headstones, marking the graves of those who served and survived but ultimately were buried here.
In Struma Military Cemetery, in Greece, to avoid risk of earthquake damage, small headstones are laid flat on the ground.
On the way, Fuller stopped to show me a small graveyard — three headstones in a neatly fenced plot.
To celebrate Christmas, they put up a small tree by her headstone and covered her grave with pine branches.
Just a few steps from where Mr. Cobb, a retired truck driver, knelt by his mother and daughter, 75-year-old Luella Marshall limped slowly away from a small but brand-new brass headstone inscribed with her husband's name.
In place of the headstone was a small photograph of Imad Mugniyah, the Hezbollah commander who was killed in February and who was widely viewed in the West as the mastermind of decades of bombings, kidnappings and hijackings.
Nearby is a small graveyard dotted with carved headstones which, according to the Romans, bore witness to the Punics' ritual sacrifice of children.
Marzoug and his group of volunteers in Zarzis are in the process of crowdfunding money for a new plot of land intended to be the next burial site, hoping for better arranged graves with headstones and a small cottage where they can prepare the bodies – and a fence to encircle the site.
