Memorial Day Weekend and A Week in Lake Powell
All my life I remember going with my parents on Memorial Day to decorate the graves of their parents (mostly my mom's parents). My mom was faithful to remember all her relatives who had passed, including Gene Bird, her husband for a few short months before he was killed in an airplane crash in WWII. My dad never liked my mom to talk about her first husband, but he was supportive of her placing flowers on his grave, and before he passed away in 2015, he made sure one of my brothers would continue to decorate it. I feel like our generation is not as involved in this tradition, and also the tradition of honoring those who have given their lives for our freedoms, and it's sad that we have moved away from it somewhat in favor of playing on a day off. Roy and I are trying to be more mindful of the purposes of this holiday, and yesterday we stopped (on our way home from Lake Powell) at the Evergreen Cemetery in Springville, UT. and placed flowers on my parent's graves. We a