{"id":117,"date":"2007-05-28T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-05-28T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T01:13:12","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/family\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/197\/518890491_11decfa7f7.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"eagle\" width=400 \/><br \/>\nToday is Memorial Day&#8230;a day to remember our men and women who have served and are still serving our country.  Jonathan and I went to the cemetery in Ennis today where my grandparent&#8217;s and great-grandparents are buried.   Since it is Memorial Day, someone went around the cemetery and put little flags by the graves of military men\/women.  My grandad was a Lt. Commander in the US Navy so he had a little flag too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/236\/518869888_aefef5284d.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"grave\" width=400 \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/207\/518961411_4417a1de51.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"grave\" width=400 \/><br \/>\nJonathan and I also went to downtown Ennis to see the building where my great-grandad&#8217;s store was&#8211;he owned the Men&#8217;s clothing store in town.  When my great-grandad owned it, he had a big M etched into the stone and painted above the doors.  Since then, the store has been divided into two stores, one is a taxidermy and the other one is a gift\/tourist shop.  The Taxidermy store has left the big M on the front of the store but the gift shop didn&#8217;t and painted blue bonnets over it&#8230;geeze!  When my grandad died, we were on the way to the cemetery and passed by this store&#8230;my grandmother pointed out the store to me and told me all about the M on the building and my great-grandad&#8217;s buisness.  I remembered this comversation and mentioned it to Jonathan&#8230;so a few months ago Jonathan was in Ennis for something and saw the building so today we went to find it.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/210\/518867688_ac02cf965d.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/233\/518893227_cd22f4c169.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the other part of my great-grandad&#8217;s old store&#8230;behind the blue bonetts is where the M is etched into the stone&#8230;here&#8217;s a clsoe up of it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/252\/518866642_0f2794b15b.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=400 \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Memorial Day&#8230;a day to remember our men and women who have served and are still serving our country. Jonathan and I went to the cemetery in Ennis today where my grandparent&#8217;s and great-grandparents are buried. 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