Today we won’t talk allergies.

Today we will talk about those who were willing to die so that we might live free.

Lets pause and remember what Memorial Day is really about.

Lots of places try to lay claim to being the home of Memorial Day.  It really doesn’t matter how it began, but begin it did, after the end of the Civil War (or the War of Northern Aggression as it was called when I was growing up). A nation that had lost so many needed a way to honor their dead. Women from the South and North decorated the graves of fallen soldiers. General John Logan issued a command that flowers were to be laid on the graves of soldiers at Arlington Cemetery on May 30, 1868.

Memorial Day didn’t become a national holiday observed on the last Monday in May until 1971.  Several southern states still honor the Confederate dead on a separate day.

So if you aren’t participating in a ceremony or attending a memorial service or decorating a soldier’s grave, then please take a moment.  Remember those brave men and women who believed so strongly in your liberty that they were willing to die to preserve it.  Remember how precious that liberty is and to resist those who would take it away.

Give thanks for the fallen..

Cheryl