thanks for sharing....I enjoyed reading it and can relate to the statement "I dont know whom I told what" one of my favorite expressions or excuses.
After sharing with you and my husband about ?buddy poppy day, he went to the IGA in this small town, McCaysville, Ga to pick up a red onion and 2 limes for my?guacamole (McCaysville is actually where GA and TN come together) ?and he brought home a poppy for me. ? ?Attached to it was a little blue flower which said "forget me not"?
I am going to try to attach a picture of both of them with my little Memorial Decoration Day display. ?
Wishing more of you would share with the Yahoo group.
The class of 60 will have their reunion next week so be thinking of them. ?They are very?aggressive?in planning and I am hoping that sometime in the future we will be able to combine our reunion with classes that went before us and also those that came behind us. ?Loved the class of 60 and sometimes wish I would of failed so I could of been in that class too!
Have a safe holiday weekend and take time to reflect on the past and the sacrifices that have been made for our freedoms which are being challenged daily. ?
?love to all pjlee
PS Johnny ...I can just see you on that little bike trying to pedal up the main street!?
?GO JOHNNY GO!
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:05 AM, jhdouglas59
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Salutations all:
Just a brief reminiscence about Memorial Day (aka Decoration Day) from my foggy memories about how it was back in my youth.
Somehow my recollections diminish with each passing year. Also,
just like my parents before me, I tend to repeat myself--not intentionally, but just because I don't know whom I told what.
I might have said this previously last year. If so, please excuse
the repetition.
My recollection of Decoration Day was riding my balloon tire orange
colored Schwinn bicycle (complete with an annoying horn buzzer located
in the cross-bar between the seat and steering handlebars in an
enclosed metal thing which was part of the crossbar).
I attached all kinds of crepe paper (red, white and blue of course)
between the spokes as everyone else did. Also I vaguely remember attaching playing cards somehow to the spokes so it would make a flapping sound as I rode my bike in the parade. It was tough going as I made my way up the Dalton hill on the way to the cemetery for
the remembrance of veterans who sacrificed their lives for our
country.
I guess because we grew up in a time shortly after WW II (the big one), that people were more patriotic back then. How times have
changed now. Veterans have a hard time these days being recognized
for their service to our country. God bless every one of them.
Have a great Memorial Day and pause to remember why we have this
celebration every year. Memorial Day is more than picnics and
barbecues.
May everyone have a safe and joyful Memorial Day!
Johnny
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