Memorial Day Thoughts

This weekend, we celebrate Memorial Day. It is a time when people decorate graves and remember their loved ones who have died and appropriately so. We also need to remember the reason Memorial Day was created. Every Memorial Day Weekend, I would accompany my Mother as she delivered a plant to every Gold Star family in our community. There were many and every single year, without exception the Gold Star families were always remembered and visited.

From the Veterans Administration….

That Nation which respects and honors its dead, shall ever be respected and honored itself.”
– Brevet Lieut.-Col. Edmund B. Whitman, 1868

Memorial Day, a federal holiday held the last Monday in May, is the nation’s foremost annual day to mourn and honor its deceased service men and women.

Originally called Decoration Day, it was formalized by a “Memorial Day Order” issued by Grand Army of the Republic Commander-in-Chief John A. Logan in 1868.

The modern proclamation calls on Americans “to observe Memorial Day by praying, according to their individual religious faith, for permanent peace.”