these two book are about memorial day. i wanted to check out books about memorial day because i didn't know too much about it. i knew it was about putting flowers on people's graves who were in the war.








memorial day started after the civil war because they wanted to remember soldiers who died fighting in the army. they would put flowers at their graves, and flags. they called it decoration day.

people sometimes throw flowers in the water to remember the soldiers who died at sea and an important ceremony is done at a big graveyard in virginia. thousands of people from the armed forces are buried there.

many u.s. soldiers died in other wars too. memorial day is a time to remember them.

i have helped my great-grandmother decorate graves. not all of them are soldiers some of them are just our family members. we put flags and flowers in the ground around them.

we can learn about the wars in books. one of my good friends, clifton, fought in world war 2. my great-grandfathers both served in world war 2 too. my uncle jerry fought in the army. he lost his leg in the vietnam war and now he has a fake leg. my uncle jay fought in the army too. he survived, he didn't get shot and he didn't get hurt.