Comments on: My Memorial Day traditions include… http://semmie.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/my-memorial-day-traditions-include/ Sun, 19 May 2013 02:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve Ward http://semmie.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/my-memorial-day-traditions-include/#comment-930 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:59:42 +0000 http://semmie.wordpress.com/?p=1093#comment-930 Hi Sarah,

My hometown (where I grew up), Grafton, West Virginia, has a National Cemetery. As when I was just a lad, school children still march in a Memorial Day Parade carrying flowers in one hand and an American flag in the other. They enter the National Cemetery (an annex was later built in Pruntytown.) in Grafton and plant both flowers and flag on the grave of a fallen soldier. This is my memory and tradition for Memorial Day- even though I have not been to a parade for a few years.

Shalom!!!
Steve

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