Decoration Day was what we called Memorial Day in 1960 when I was a child in Dearborn, Mo. It was a day in May when families went to cemeteries to decorate the graves of loved ones. The flowers were usually peonies or homegrown roses in tin cans wrapped in aluminum foil, perhaps with a ribbon tied around the can.
Although I later found out that the day of decorating was founded to remember deceased soldiers of the Civil War, I only knew it as the day we remembered deceased members of our family. It wasn’t until 20 years later that I
