Thank you for explaining. I was trying but not doing a very good job. I wanted people to know that this wasn't something dark or evil, or spooks go bump in the night like halloween, but a time of great reverence for those who had passed on. When I lived in the Phoneix area I got to witness several Day of the Dead celebrations. It's not a sad time, it is very festive.Children are told stories of gggrandfather and how he brought the family from a little tiny town to the city. Or how gggrandmother raised her brothers and sister because he parents had to work the fields. Or uncle so-n-so was a hero in the war.