Why we do we Remember Memorial Day?
By Theresa Tillett
To many of our school children in our modern day with the proper history of American and world history no longer being taught, the reason for the holiday is muddled.
There are too many children no longer having actual knowledge of what wars of our recent past have been like as the older generations are dying off.
As the "community memory" of our elders die off the reason we celebrate Memorial Day is becoming lost to only being the reason that the family gathers and has a BBQ after going out shopping the sales...
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