As a history buff, I have always had a fascination with cemeteries.  Each stone memorializes a person or persons who had lived.

The words I type can not express my emphasis on the word “lived”.  I mean that in every essence of the word.  These people, who lived in another dimension in time, had emotions like us and may or may not have lived their life to the fullest.

I have always loved cemeteries.

Apparently so does my daughter.  I mean, her father does live in one now.

She jumps up and down with excitement when it’s time to go visit a cemetery.  I am not alarmed, she is a smart child and she has had to face things that many adults have never had to face.

But in her young life, she has also helped her grandfather place flags on Veterans graves every memorial day.

This was my daughter last year placing flags on graves with her grandfather.

And last year we got to attend the parade.

This year was different because of a certain virus.

My daughter did place flags with her grandfather.  If I heard my father correctly, they visited 9 cemeteries.

There were some family cemeteries.  This is Higgins Cemetery where we placed a flag on a grave of a Civil War Veteran.

We visited an old forgotten family cemetery in the woods.  The owner of the land was going to clear the land and found the graves.   The owner did some research and found that one of the graves belonged to a Civil War Veteran. The owner contacted the VFW and the grave was rededicated.

And we visited a grave of a Civil War Veteran that was in the woods behind a subdivision.

Today there was no parade but my father and his fellow comrades still held a few small memorials (while recording LIVE by drone on Facebook).

Because they will never forget.

My daughter did get to say the Pledge of Allegiance at two of the Memorials.  She was so excited to participate. She can tell you why we are gathering which I think is impressive for a 5 year old.   Though she had trouble staying focused during the reading of General John A. Logan’s Memorial Day Order.  Hopefully that will come with age.

How was your Memorial Day?  Were you able to participate?