Thursday #317 - Remember!

[cassiesmom]

Goodness, my grandmother used to call it Decoration Day. I was just thinking about this yesterday at work. Everyone was buzzing at lunch about traveling or doing house work (painting, cleaning, repairing, that sort of thing) because of the 3-day weekend. No mention of putting out a flag or going to a parade. I did my graduate nursing clinical rotations at the V.A. and I got way more out of it than I ever put in. It was a privilege to be a student with the veterans there.

On a completely different note - It has been a lovely, sunny, 75-degree day in Chicago today - could I please have iced tea?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Anybody able to explain why it was called Decoration Day????

[blue]

Anybody able to explain why it was called Decoration Day????

Why not just explain the reason instead of trolling?

I have no idea and would like to know.

If I had to guess it would have to do with Decorating our Veterans with medals they earned.

[blue]

Being a toll and trolling are different. One catches fish and the other scares the fish.

I just need some jalapeneos for my martini.

[Karen]

Decoration Day was a name prevalent in the South in the years after the Civil War. Widows, children and survivors would go to decorate the graves of those killed in the war, hence the name "Decoration" Day. It was known as Memorial Day in the North, and was expanded to be a day of remembrance for not only the war dead, but all our forebears and loved ones.

I went with Dad on Friday, and we planted flowers at my mother's grave, my brother and sister who died as infants, my grandparents and his grandparents (my great-grands), and several beloved (great) aunts and uncles.