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For those commemorating this day, wishing you a very meaningful Memorial Day!
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Personally speaking, I am glad that you didn't use the term 'celebrate' in connection with Memorial Day. As one who served, and also lost both friends and family in WWII and Vietnam, I am dismayed that it has become just another excuse for a sale.
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I've always said the same thing. I don't use the word "celebrate". That sounds like it should be a happy, fun-filled, party day. Now, as my veteran husband (USMC) once said, enjoy the freedoms that they fought for--but please spare a moment to remember their sacrifices.
It was a nice remembrance to see on TV the flags on the graves at Arlington National Cemetery. My parents are buried there. My father served stateside during WWII and Korea.
It's also a day to remember all of our loved ones who have passed away. I remember my parents used to take flowers to the graves of our relatives. Maybe it's a southern custom, I don't know.
Edit: I found this when I googled Memorial Day.
In the South[edit]
Decoration Day in the Southern Appalachians[edit]
[8]Decoration Days for particular cemeteries are still held on a Sunday in late spring or early summer in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In cases involving a family graveyard where remote ancestors, as well as those who died more recently, are buried, Decoration Day may take on the character of an extended family reunion to which some people travel hundreds of miles. People gather, put flowers on graves, and renew contacts with relatives and others. There often is a religious service and a picnic-like "dinner on the grounds", the traditional term for a potluck meal at a church.[8] Decoration Day practices are often specific to individual families and can incorporate ritualistic elements.[9].
The cemetery, seen as an integrated whole on or after Decoration Day in the Appalachians, is a compelling panoramic canvas – a strikingly beautiful folk art created by communities together over time. We hope that the words and photographs of our book will convey to others what we experienced attending decorations and visiting Appalachian cemeteries – a sense of the decorated cemetery as a folk art capable of breathtaking beauty and expressing powerfully the deepest values of Appalachian culture. [10]
— Alan Jabbour, Co-Author of "Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians", "What is Decoration Day?", University of North Carolina Blog (27 May 2010)
Edit: I found this when I googled Memorial Day.
In the South[edit]
Decoration Day in the Southern Appalachians[edit]
[8]Decoration Days for particular cemeteries are still held on a Sunday in late spring or early summer in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In cases involving a family graveyard where remote ancestors, as well as those who died more recently, are buried, Decoration Day may take on the character of an extended family reunion to which some people travel hundreds of miles. People gather, put flowers on graves, and renew contacts with relatives and others. There often is a religious service and a picnic-like "dinner on the grounds", the traditional term for a potluck meal at a church.[8] Decoration Day practices are often specific to individual families and can incorporate ritualistic elements.[9].
The cemetery, seen as an integrated whole on or after Decoration Day in the Appalachians, is a compelling panoramic canvas – a strikingly beautiful folk art created by communities together over time. We hope that the words and photographs of our book will convey to others what we experienced attending decorations and visiting Appalachian cemeteries – a sense of the decorated cemetery as a folk art capable of breathtaking beauty and expressing powerfully the deepest values of Appalachian culture. [10]
— Alan Jabbour, Co-Author of "Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians", "What is Decoration Day?", University of North Carolina Blog (27 May 2010)
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
~ excerpt from “For the Fallen,” by Laurence Binyon
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There is a ceremony held at our courthouse every year on Memorial Day. There is a monument on the lawn with the names of the wars and those fallen soldiers who died. A bell is tolled and each name is called of the fallen soldiers and and the war specified in which they died. Wreaths are laid by the monument honoring the fallen.
Sometimes there is a singer. We always go because it is just the right thing to do.
Sometimes there is a singer. We always go because it is just the right thing to do.
