Memorial Day

to place a flower on a grave was then a heartfelt memorial so it was in May of 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina when 10,000 freed slaves came to honor the fallen the Martyrs of the Race Course where 257 Union POWs died some say our Memorial Day started right then and there 620,000 died in the Civil War in 1868 there was a proclamation but there is still some dispute as to when and where it began but there is no dispute on this that over a million have died each day another soldier falls so this is the day to feel the loss freedom is a joyful celebration but let us not omit the invocation