Elijah Rodriguez, a senior at Marquette University High School, spent a recent English class on his hands and knees in Forest Home Cemetery and Arboretum in Milwaukee, scrubbing clean the gravestones of Murphy Pleasant and his son, Murphy Pleasant Jr.
Murphy Sr. was a World War II veteran, and Murphy Jr. died while serving in Vietnam.
Rodriguez told “Wisconsin Today” that the exercise gave him a different perspective on those who have lived before…