Sunday, May 28, 2006

Memorial Day Weekend

My husband and I went to the cemetery today. There were lots of people there, but they were all older people. I felt like we stuck out.... a young (in comparison) couple, going from grave to grave, hand-in-hand ...... first our baby Levi's, then my first husband's, then my dad's, then my aunt's....... We put blue hydrangeas for Levi (silk). I found myself hurrying along this time, not wanting to linger long enough for too many feelings to settle in. I was almost robotically going through the task, put flowers here-move to next one-place flowers here-move to next one.......

1 Comments:

Blogger kate said...

Good luck with your washer Lynne...better luck than me.

(((((hugs))))) to you for Memorial Day...i am sorry it has to be this way.

Memorial Day is different for different people -- here in MI it seems alot of people do go to the cemetaries for their own dead, and there are even priests out to do blessings. I grew up near Boalsburg PA which is actually the 'birthplace of Memorial Day' and it was only for military veterans. As far as i know, the way it started was with a mother whose son had died in the Civil War.

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