I remember...
A/ singing America the Beautiful and other patriotic songs at a Memorial Day celebration in about 1969.
B is next
C/ Community placing flags on soldiers' graves
E/ Eating grilled or picnic food.
Memorial Day was a community wide "family reunion" in my home town. The American Legion sold crepe paper poppys--- Red if your mother was living White if she had died. Big parade, flowers placed on family gravesites.----Town of La Junta, CO.
Memorial Day was a community wide "family reunion" in my home town. The American Legion sold crepe paper poppys--- Red if your mother was living White if she had died. Big parade, flowers placed on family gravesites.----Town of La Junta, CO.
Flags and standing in the city cemetery in all kinds of weather for the memorial day speeches. My dad was VFW and later DAV
G/ gun salutes and the graveside memorials
H/ Holiday to remember our loved ones who have transitioned into the Light.
