Memorial Day

1. Memorial Day is a day on which those who died in active military service are remembered.
2. The purpose is to honor the men and women who died while serving the U.S. military.
3. Memorial day was originally celebrated on May 30th but it is not celebrated on the last Monday of May.
4. Some ways you can show honor and respect to those who have died in battle are;  you can visit a veteran’s cemetery or war memorial, take cookies to a nearby veteran’s hospital, go to a Memorial Day parade, etc.

Memorial Day used to be known as Decoration day because it was established as a day for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. The official flower of Memorial Day is the Poppy. This is the official flower because poppies grew in abundance in the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. It bewildered some as to how the flowers could grow in such a landscape.

To show respect and honor to veterans I plan to volunteer to feed them and to help make care packages to them and their families.