What is Memorial Day in observance of?

It seems that most Americans will bar-b-que, go boating, have a three day weekend up at the lake, while others just, Rest.

"But it wasn’t until a remarkable discovery in a dusty Harvard University archive in the late 1990s that historians learned about a Memorial Day commemoration organized by a group of Black people freed from enslavement less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865." 

Our country was divided, but many fought to bring about her unity!  Freedom for all people!  If you believe that all of human creation are created equal and deserve breath, life and happiness and basic necessities of food, shelter and opportunity, then please be sure to pause, (not paws) to give thanks for those who stood toe to toe against the hatred and bigotry that is centuries old and I might add, OUTDATED!  There really is NO place for it in our society or in our world!!  Please keep standing up for the I.D.E.A. that will bring us closer together. (I.D.E.A.= Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Acceptance)

Let's keep choosing to "Let Kindness be our default!"

Happily submitted by Rose Klass, AAS, VT
I.D.E.A. & Wellness chairs