For a while people were "celebrating" Memorial day.
It was creeping into popular ignorance.
I first noticed it in a Macy's ad in 2004.
Next about 2 years later.
"Celebrate Memorial Day with a new Green Egg".
Finally, I heard talk radio making the correction a couple of years ago.
My father commanded 3 ships in WW2 and said Memorial Day was like his wedding anniversary.
An observance, not a celebration.
Another thing which was starting to happen recently was the conflation of living veterans with Memorial day.
Lumping them all together.
Living veterans have another day.
Just watched a youtube video and someone made that correct distinction.
We can't rewrite or know how history would be different.
I'm wondering if WW2 would have happened if American had not gotten involved in The Great War.
Follow the money trail on that one .
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
