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Saturday, May 26, 2018

Memorial Day Weekend 2018


     Memorial Day began as a day when the mother's of Confederate soldiers came to decorate and clean their children's graves.  It then grew to tending the graves of all soldiers lost in one of our many wars. When I was a child, we went to another county to tend the graves of my grandparents although none had been in the military. Today it is a day of remembering our military who have lost their lives in defending the United States.
     The most striking place I have seen is the American Cemetery in Normandy France. We laid a wreath at the memorial and walked among the crosses (and Stars of David and Muslim symbols) and considered how on D-Day these people gave their lives to drive back Fascism. It is solemn and a reminder of our own nation's potential drift into the belief that one nation is better, one race is better and one creed is better.
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