We are headed into a long holiday weekend. Memorial Day is on Monday and it is a National Holiday in the U.S.
I was reminded of that when I entered a big box store this morning, being greeted by a huge American Flag.
Memorial Day is when we honor those who have lost their lives while in military service .
Clever how they made these flags wave. They had a fan behind each one.
There were all sorts of patriotic items for sale. Hair bands and bows,
even sunglasses.
Many family observe this holiday by having a cookout, so of course there was a huge display of fluid to help light your cooking grill.
It seems every holiday these days we are bombarded by commercialism...
To me this holiday of all holidays should be a quiet remembrance of those who as they say "Gave The Ultimate Sacrifice". I personally have never, to my knowledge, lost a relative to war. My Dad was in World War ll but never left the U.S. Several of my uncles did, but they all came home safely. In all of my genealogy research I only found a very distant relative that was captured during the Battle of Franklin in the Civil War(1861-1865)......and he escaped and also made it safely home.
Does your country have a Memorial or Remembrance Day?
Have you if lost a loved one to war?
Wouldn't it be nice if we never had another war?...and we could all just tackle the other problems we have on this planet? Wishful thinking...and I am not naive enough to think that will ever happen...
I would say Happy Memorial Day....but it is not a holiday to be happy about.
Does your country have a Memorial or Remembrance Day?
Have you if lost a loved one to war?
Wouldn't it be nice if we never had another war?...and we could all just tackle the other problems we have on this planet? Wishful thinking...and I am not naive enough to think that will ever happen...
I would say Happy Memorial Day....but it is not a holiday to be happy about.
We have Remembrance Day on Nov. 11. Yes, my dad's cousin didn't make it back from the war. A northern lake in Sasktchewan is named after him.
ReplyDeleteOur remembrance day is the 11th Nov. To be precise it is the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month where we observe 2 minutes silence. The date is significant because that is when the armistice was signed between the allied forces and Germany to end the First World War in 1918.
ReplyDeleteWe always have May 4th as remembrance day here. We don't have lost anyone close by war, only Stef has never had grandparents, they were all killed in the exterminations camps by the Germans.
ReplyDeleteAs noted, Remembrance Day is ours.
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