Same here. Nothing happy about the day .Everyday is Memorial Day for me, not just the last Monday of May.
It always got under my skin when someone said "happy Memorial Day". That indicated they did not know the true meaning of Memorial Day.
My wife's niece did that on Facebook a couple of years ago . I told my wife to call her and tell her to take that **** down . She did .Everyday is Memorial Day for me, not just the last Monday of May.
It always got under my skin when someone said "happy Memorial Day". That indicated they did not know the true meaning of Memorial Day.
Jstert, the love is for your maternal grandmother on Memorial Day, and the rememberence, dignity, and respect she paid to the fallen in your family, and I am sure all around them.i always remember my tiny, scottish, maternal grandmother on memorial day. when i was 5-6 years old we all went to a memorial day observance near her home in boston. she wore her ww1 medal on her left side and other medals on her right side. i asked her why. she explained that the medals on her right side “belong to your grandfather and uncle.” a canadian citizen, she was a ww1 u.s. army nurse in france and siberia. my grandfather, a ww1 u.s. army officer, never recovered from t.b. that he contracted in siberia, and was a patient of hers in vladivostok, and then died in 1928. her oldest son, my maternal uncle, was killed in a nazi p.o.w. camp in 1945. despite her greivous losses she remained a gentle sweet woman her entire life.