Shirley Bullock's Blog - Posts Tagged "holiday"
Geri's thoughts on Memorial Day/Decoration Day
Hi everyone!
My name is Nurse Geri Lanham, for more info about me turn to Forever Promised by Shirley Bullock.
I would like you to sit down and share your thoughts with me on Decoration Day/Memorial Day.
Here in Betheltowne we have a big parade with flag waving and children cheering the veterans as they walk by. We all meet at the cemetery behind the school and clean and decorate the graves. Each veteran receives a flag. After all the hard work we go to the school and have dinner on the ground while listening to patriotic music played by our local band.
Decoration Day was started in part by southern women's groups that honored their Confederate dead by placing flowers on their graves. Nella L Sweet wrote a hymn called Kneel Where Our Loves Are Sleeping and dedicated to the wives, mothers and sweethearts of those fallen soldiers whose graves they decorated.
General John Logan started the first official Decoration Day May 30, 1868. A large ceremony was held in Arlington National Cemetery.
The honor and meaning of Memorial Day as it was soon to be called fell away. It became a three day National holiday, and the youth of today are all but ignorant of it's importance.
Every fallen soldier was somebody's son, brother or sweetheart. One life is a high price to someone for freedom.
Washington D.C. had its first parade in 2004 in over 60 years.
What are your thoughts, do you think since it became a generic holiday that lessened it's meaning. How can we instill in our youth its importance?
Geri Lanham
My name is Nurse Geri Lanham, for more info about me turn to Forever Promised by Shirley Bullock.
I would like you to sit down and share your thoughts with me on Decoration Day/Memorial Day.
Here in Betheltowne we have a big parade with flag waving and children cheering the veterans as they walk by. We all meet at the cemetery behind the school and clean and decorate the graves. Each veteran receives a flag. After all the hard work we go to the school and have dinner on the ground while listening to patriotic music played by our local band.
Decoration Day was started in part by southern women's groups that honored their Confederate dead by placing flowers on their graves. Nella L Sweet wrote a hymn called Kneel Where Our Loves Are Sleeping and dedicated to the wives, mothers and sweethearts of those fallen soldiers whose graves they decorated.
General John Logan started the first official Decoration Day May 30, 1868. A large ceremony was held in Arlington National Cemetery.
The honor and meaning of Memorial Day as it was soon to be called fell away. It became a three day National holiday, and the youth of today are all but ignorant of it's importance.
Every fallen soldier was somebody's son, brother or sweetheart. One life is a high price to someone for freedom.
Washington D.C. had its first parade in 2004 in over 60 years.
What are your thoughts, do you think since it became a generic holiday that lessened it's meaning. How can we instill in our youth its importance?
Geri Lanham
