Good morning, Dolly. What a beautiful post. God bless our military.
My dad died December 1990. I go to the cemetery several times a year but the big family day is one day of Memorial weekend. We have 10 relatives at this cemetery & 8 at another (and one at a third but we usually don't get there). We clean the stones with brushes (I have a obsessive compulsive aunt), trim around the graves, put flowers around. Fewer participate each year as they are more infirm & all in 80s+. Family comes from out of town. Due to all the illness, problems this year, It may be a party of one ...me. Our family plot here is on the ledge of the Rocky River Ravine.. goes into the Cleveland Metro Park.. Big drop.