Decoration Day

COMMENTARY

Bearing flowers and tradition, the next generation takes on the duty of Decoration Day

BY: - May 29, 2023

This story was first published in The Daily Yonder on May 21, 2021 and is is republished here under a Creative Commons license. While their friends are cannonballing into the city pool this weekend, my sons will spend the day in an Eastern Kentucky cemetery, placing flowers on the graves of relatives they never knew. […]