Decoration Day

Originally started to honor those who died in the Civil War

Many cities claim to be the one that originated laying flowers on the graves of the fallen.

Decoration Day was what both my grandmother and my father called

May 30.

We were lucky, our soldiers always came home

But as a child, our family decorated all the graves

The graves of my Civil War Ancestors

(They came home) 

Henry Tebbenkamp

(great grandfather on my father's side)

Henry Culp

(great great grandfather on my mother's side)


In 2016, it's known as
"Memorial Day"

Linderhof
paying respects to those who didn't make it home
With battle crosses.
Husband Jim and I lost a lot of friends and classmates in Vietnam.