The Weeping Woman in Bronze

At VMI, a bronze statue is said to weep, a ghost wakes cadets for guard duty, and something throws apples at night on a battlefield.

The state of Virginia “Mourning Her Sons”. The Virginia Military Institute Cadets killed at the Battle of New Market defending Virginia are buried behind the memorial and headstones appear as white “blocks”. | Photo by William Maury Morris

Someone crosses the grass to find out what it is. He ends up at the foot of a bronze statue of a seated woman, and h…