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A Time to Remember

Just a gentle reminder, Memorial Day is just around the corner. Traditionally, it’s a day that heralds the beginning of the vacation season, occurring as it does at about the time when the Michigan weather finally turns to summer. It’s a time for Lilacs and Asparagus, Rhubarb and remembering. Remembering those who have gone before us, who may have charted our course in some way. There are those who may have given us life, and there are those who may have given their life in the service of our Country. They may have added immeasurably to our own lives, by being family, by being friends, or just by being there. So we set aside a holiday weekend to remind us to remember. The day might be observed by a parade, or a cookout, or maybe a family trip back home. For some it might mean a visit to a cemetery where your own history lies at rest. You might do a little trimming around the stones, plant some fresh flowers, or tidy the place up a little. You might pause a moment to enjoy the warmth of the late May sun, while you lean on a headstone that bears the name of someone you knew. Or maybe your fingers will quietly trace the engravings on the monuments, while you remember.

Most of us are from what we like to call the “heartland”, where small towns are the norm, and the local highways and country roads that stretch between them are lined with farms and forests, small businesses and country churches, and every few miles, you’re likely to see a cemetery. In our part of the world, many are small and very local in nature. If it’s an area you grew up in, you will recognize many of the names on the markers, maybe know the people they memorialize. If you’re like me, it’s hard to resist wandering a bit through the cemetery, as the quiet, reflective nature of the surroundings bids you to do. All those monuments are like the edges of the books you see on the shelf in the library. You can see the names, but you wonder about the story behind them. Gravestones usually give you just a little hint about the lives they represent. But for the people you knew, they are like a permanent record, verifying and remembering a story that you may have lived along with them. Reminding you to remember.

[The photos below were not taken for the purpose of this article, but rather for one of the kid’s school projects a couple of years ago. Most of the names will not be familiar to you, some are to me, but the point is to remind you to treasure the stories of those who have walked this way before. Don’t let them be forgotten on your watch]

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