The Buzz - Memorial Day

By  Marlene Bohr

When I was growing up, the day celebrated now as Memorial Day was called Decoration Day.
It was a huge thing at our house to get fresh flowers from around our property. We had a bleeding heart bush in the front yard and iris growing, and we would go to the city to my grandmothers and get in her bed of lily of the valley to add to the containers. Yes, we had containers that were made of metal and wood, and those had wires that would secure the containers in the ground. Each year the family would retrieve them out of the shed, and we would make bouquets and head for the local cemetery to decorate graves of loved ones. We would see many others doing the same thing we did on those trips.

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