| Old Glory Does Not Wave By Accident. Why we | | | | since many businesses promote Memorial Day sales? |
| celebrate, how we celebrate and what makes it right. | | | | Has the original meaning of the day been lost? |
| Use These Memorial Day Recipes To Help Make | | | | My family and I know that "Old Glory" does not |
| Memories On Memorial Day | | | | continue to wave by accident. We take time |
| My family and I know that "Old Glory" does not wave | | | | throughout the Memorial Day weekend to remember |
| by accident. We have lost loved ones to war. | | | | the fallen. We go to the cemeteries and place the |
| Memorial Day is special. | | | | flags. Old Glory flies at half mast at home. We tell |
| Memorial Day is for remembering the sacrifices made | | | | stories, some sad - some happy, about those that |
| by others - for us - for our continued freedom. But I | | | | cannot be at our family party. We remember them |
| believe the day should also be used to create new | | | | with reverence. |
| memories. | | | | We also remember my first husband's last words as |
| Having lost family to war, I believe I am able to put this | | | | his Cobra helicopter was on fire and about to explode: |
| particular holiday in perspective. It is a day, in fact an | | | | "Tell my family I love them. Tell them to live for me." |
| entire weekend, for us to accomplish two things: | | | | So ...my family and I celebrate our freedom - and life. |
| remembering and appreciating the ultimate sacrifice | | | | We live our lives together. We do this best by being |
| made by others and exercising those won freedoms | | | | together and enjoying great recipes and the food they |
| in a way that creates fond memories with those we | | | | create. |
| still have to love. | | | | One of the things my family and I do is talk about how |
| Memorial Day should certainly be more meaningful than | | | | to support our troops today. We put together a "care |
| simply a three day weekend or mini vacation. It is a | | | | package" or two or three or four. We send the |
| sacred day of remembrance ...but it should also be a | | | | packages to soldiers somewhere in this world. We |
| time for the living to celebrate each others company | | | | don't care where they are stationed or what branch of |
| while time permits. I especially like to totally surround | | | | the service they serve. |
| myself with family and friends on this day, or even on | | | | As one soldier wrote recently, "All soldiers need the |
| this entire weekend, to celebrate what we (still) have | | | | simple knowledge of one thing...someone must want |
| because of those who gave their lives. | | | | them to come home. If a soldier has that...they may be |
| Memorial Day was born out of the horror of war - first | | | | able to make it through anything!!!!" |
| the Civil War - and now for all those who have | | | | After the package(s) are wrapped and sent, we do |
| departed as a result of war. The purpose of this | | | | as ordered by our missing loved ones - we celebrate |
| holiday may seem to be fading from some peoples' | | | | with food and beverage and memories - and we |
| consciousness. Is it now simply a three day vacation? | | | | create new memories to be enjoyed forever (see link |
| Is it simply the unofficial start to summer and the | | | | below). What a gift they have given us! |
| barbecue season? Is it an excuse to go shopping | | | | |