Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a holiday that I've written about several times. Here's a post from the first few months of this blog: http://paulstroble.blogspot.com/2009/05/decoration-day.html

Also this one, about my dad's grandfather who served in the Union army: http://paulstroble.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-civil-war-ancestor.html

This one, about my distant cousin (first cousin three-times removed) who died in World War I:
http://paulstroble.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-cousin-lewis.html The centennial of his death is coming up.

This one, about a mysterious-looking tombstone in our family cemetery:
http://paulstroble.blogspot.com/2012/10/remembering-antebellum-blacksmith.html

And this one, about Ralph Vaughan Williams' piece "Dona Nobis Pacem" (give us peace):
http://paulstroble.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-years-music-vaughan-williams-dona.html

What are you doing this weekend? We have a quiet weekend planned, the three of us doing family kinds of things.

Frederick Edwin Church,
"Our Banner in the Sky"
(1861)