What does Memorial Day mean to you personally?

For me, it is a time to remember our veterans and honor them for their great sacrifice. Earlier, we watched the 19th Memorial Day Concert on TV and we sung along with the hundreds of people at the concert as the national anthem and other patriotic songs were played. It was also a night that my husband thought of his two uncles who served in the military and he felt bad that back then when they were alive, he never asked about their war experiences. Tomorrow will also be a day when we kicked-off summer with a backyard barbeque at our house and spend time with family.

I always thought of Memorial Day as the unofficial start of summer.It was the day when the pool opened and back in the day, it was a hot day and my friends and I would wait and see who could be the first in the pool. In my teens it meant a jazz concert near the river. Now it is baseball on t.v.

I guess because I have lost my parents this would be a day to set aside to pay extra respect to them....but then again it could be said that everyday I think of them so eevryday is memorial day. But my father was a veteran of world war two....a disabled vet who was proud to have served this country inspite of the fact that he was injured. I now have two son in laws that are career military...who would give up their lives to protect us and keep our freedom...so memorial day is always and for as long as I can remember has been a very special day to our family too!

for me it is sad becouse that is when all my family come and we have cookouts and thing now it is nothing to me it is just something you think about and the ppl you miss that is all and the ones are over sices