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A three day weekend? The start of summer? Parades and backyard barbeques? The opening of public swimming pools? You can finally start wearing white shoes again?
Memorial Day was once a sacred day of remembrance to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. Businesses closed for the day. Towns held parades honoring the fallen, the parade routes often times ending at a local cemetery, where Memorial Day speeches were given and prayers offered. Time was spent that day to clean and decorate with flowers and flags the graves of those that fell in service.
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Memorial Day is when we pause to give thanks to those who fought for our freedom.
Comment by Glenn Laycock May 23, 2012 @ 5:27 PMMaj. Robert Marchanti, 48, of Baltimore, Md., died Feb. 25, 2012 in Kabul Afghanistan, of wounds received during an attack on the Afghan Interior Ministry. He was assigned to the 29th Infantry Division Security Partnering Team of the Maryland Army National Guard.
Comment by Glenn Laycock May 23, 2012 @ 5:31 PMThe original Memorial Day was observed on May 30, 1868 to recognize the great sacrifice of life of the Civil War soldiers from both sides. After WWI, the remembrance extended to all soldiers who died for our country in any war. In 1915 Moina Michael wrote a short poem and began to wear a red poppy in remembrance of those who died for America. Her poem is as follows:
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
This poem and the efforts of the writer, led to the VFW selling red poppies to aid the families of the fallen service men and women. Once Memorial Day was moved by an act of Congress to be the last Monday of May, the true meaning of the holiday was diminished, and celebrated as a long weekend break from work by most citizens.
This weekend take a few minutes of your time off from work and remember those who died for our freedom. There are so many men and women who have paid the ultimate price in service to our nation, and those sacrifices must be remembered with respect and honor.
Find a Memorial Day service to attend, take your kids too, and at the very least, pause for a few moments to reflect on what you have in this life, and know that many lives were sacrificed in order for you and your family to enjoy the freedom you have in America.
Comment by chris donaghy May 24, 2012 @ 9:54 AMCarlos Knight, died in Vietnam while trying to cross a flooded river.
Comment by Karen Jones June 20, 2012 @ 10:12 AMI once visited the Normandy region and saw the places where our brave soldiers fought to liberate the world from tyranny and oppression. On so many fields men gave their lives. Today those fields are filled with Red Poppy Flowers. For me they symbolize the places where once brave men stood and bled so we can live in Freedom today. Blood of Heroes never Die.
Comment by Sean Paker September 11, 2012 @ 8:20 AM