I am thinking of my childhood memories when Decoration Day was exactly that----a time to visit the cemeteries. Sad as it is, I find many do not realize what Memorial Day is, when it was started nor why. To date it is set on a certain day rather than just whatever day the 30th landed upon. It seems to me that many look at it as an entitlement of free vacation day and have forgotten our fallen soldiers. Oh, by the way, Decoration Day began after the Civil War as a day to bring flowers to the war dead.
Personally, today and tomorrow I am remembering those family members in my heart (cemeteries are two states away) and I will continue doing what I have done all this week--making simple charity quilts for my Project Linus sister Chapter in Joplin, Missouri, site of the devastating tornado.