Memorial Day and Love Letters from Willy

I had to stop podcasting for a while.  I explain why, it was tough we had a health crisis.  Things are great now, but darn, it was really hard.  I wanted to bring this show back on Memorial Day and a love letter along with it.

• Memorial Day is NOT about the beginning of summer.
• Decoration Day started with the cleaning and decorating of Civil War graves.
• I give the history of it all and the wars every since
• There is a moment of silence at 3PM each Memorial Day
• Flags are supposed to be flown at half-staff
• arted going through dad's letters to see if he wrote one around Decoration Day
• I found one.  It was postmarked May31.
• He wrote such beautiful letters.
• They played baseball against another team and won.
• Then he had his favorite meal.
• He got cleaned up, drank some beer, and then wrote letters home.
• He had 6 letters to answer.
• His parents and Mother's Day.
• Their friends got married and is sounded like it was a hurry up wedding hmmm
• His aunt Marion's son Bob went into the service and I explain my wild wacky Aunt Marion.  I think she liked her whiskey.
• Mom had a birthday coming and he was sad he did not have a gift.
• Dad says he was 24 no he was 26
• Mom was going to be 24
• Then he wrote about the 9th Army and the memorial at the cemetery in Holland
• Dad was in Holland that was a big surprise
• He listened to the service.
• He listened to Bob Hope.
• He was emotional - he was tired of being gone, missing her birthday, the memorial, his parents and more
• I did some research on the cemetery those are the pictures I included in this show.
• We all know about Normandy
• 8301 soldiers are buried there
• Memorial Day 1945-2017