History of Decoration/Memorial Day
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Photo courtesy of Kim Tschudy
New Glarus WWI Veterans taken in the old Village Hall circa mid-1960's. Front Row (L-R): Art Theiler, Wilbert Zweifel, Paul Schneider, Ted Colden. Back Row (L-R): Henry Zweifel, Ray Marty, Jake Bruni, Jake Urben, E. Robert Wittwer.
The last Monday in May each year is reserved for Memorial Day. But that message is lost on many people, and that is understandable. For a couple of weeks before this annual commemoration, the public is inundated with big glossy ads on how to celebrate the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend. Memorial Day is not to be celebrated, but instead a day for solemn commemoration and remembrance of the deaths of generations of American service people.
Tragically, the real meaning of Memorial Day has become the first big sales event of the spring/summer season. If one were to take up the ideas pushed b...
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