Loved your comments and your tagline. At least you remember wearing slacks. I wasn’t allowed to once I was too old for winter leggins which matched my coats as pants were for males only, not ladies. We finally were able to wear pants suits in our office in the 1970’s - but the top and bottom had to match. One of the biggest differences I do believe was the fabric of our clothes - wool in the winter and all cotton in the summer. All grown, woven and made in the U.S. And our clothing design was classic and simple. Once I quit changing sizes nothing ever wore out and it was not unusual to have a garment that was many years old but still looked like new.
Thank you kindly for your remarks, and for further similar memories!
Tag Line is altered just a bit.
Ceremony at our local cemetery on May 30th was just fine, remembering our fallen heroes.
It was conducted near the main building, at the top of a hill.
There was our community band, Gold Star mothers laying small wreaths at a flag-draped casket, a bagpipe band, a message from our assemblyman who is presently serving in Afghanistan, a 21 gun salute (pointed over the heads of the many hundreds of us that were seated in white chairs, and sprawled on the grass with their kids! I’ve never experienced a gun salute in THAT position before!), and a dynamic keynote speech by a Navy chief, who also narrated something as sailors (6 or 7...) did a ‘Passing The Flag’ ceremony, not to be confused with the Flag Folding ceremony.
It is being said that attendance at this, and other Memorial Day services elsewhere is up over previous years and that some explanations could be that it’s 10 years since 9-11; and the killing of bin Laden.