Texas Drifter Memorial Day Memories
Marshall’s Law Dateline – There are only two kinds of Memorial Day Memories.
Starting with basics, definition of memorial is something intended to remind people of an event in which one person or more than one person died. Standard description of Memorial Day provided by another source: Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.
First type of Memorial Day memory belongs to those doing the dying or watching their comrades dying. All words spoken or written can never accurately describe sights, sounds, smells, and feelings of those dying, or those watching their compatriots pay ultimate price in service of America.
Second type of Memorial Day memories, are beloved memories from better times of family, friends, and beneficiaries of those paying ultimate price in service of America.
Perhaps Heaven has blessed those not dying and those not watching compatriots paying ultimate price in service of America, by leaving them with second type of memory; while leaving harshest memories to bravest and strongest among us.
Enough words for this writing exercise, reader will understand differences between two different types of Memorial Day memories or they will not.
Closing thought by Benjamin Harrison: I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.
