BOB BECK / ROBERT’S RAMBLINGS
Many of us remember our family gathering for Memorial Day when we were children. We would spend the day at the family gravesite, cleaning and weeding and leaving flowers. Then we would picnic, right beside the graves – that always kind of felt creepy to me.
When I was a boy, Memorial Day was still known as Decoration Day. The observance began in the years following the Civil War, which…
