Way back when I was a little girl, this would have been just a weekend - not a holiday one. The holiday even had a different name and fell on the weekday that it happened to be on during the current year. It was called Decoration Day back then and I remember everyone hoping the peonies would be in bloom for that day to decorate the graves of the veterans and also those of other loved ones gone before. Since then, it has become one of the holidays that has a variable date to enable people to have a nice three day weekend at the start of summer as has Labor Day also being adjusted to give a nice long weekend at the end of summer. So here is a very pretty card for "Decoration Day".
Have a great weekend. Stop by http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ to see other postcards--maybe not ones for Decoration Day, but great ones regardless. Thanks, Beth, for being our hostess!
It's a beautiful card and very appropriate. We have our Remembrance Day in November so there's no chance of anything being in bloom. :)
ReplyDeleteI usually figure that Memorial Day is the time for lilacs to bloom.
ReplyDeleteMoving these commemorative days to fall on a Monday for a nice three-day weekend usually serves to dilute the event it is meant to remember. I tried to find out about 'Decoration Day' and wonder what date it used to fall on?
ReplyDeleteIt fell on the 31st of May. Can't remember when they started calling it Memorial Day or exactly when the date fluctuated. Anyway, have a good weekend!! Carol
ReplyDeleteFor years I thought Decoration Day was another name for the Fourth of July. I love this postcard. I miss my Dad. I miss him. I suppose I always shall miss that grand old soldier. Thank you so much for sharing this postcard. Happy PFF!
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