When we could write...

From the WSJ, note General Order No.11 from Gen. John A. Logan establishing Memorial Day, May 5, 1868.  "What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes?  Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms."  Perhaps you need to look up in the dictionary the older meaning of tattoo no, it doesn't go on a body). Surely you will eat your heart out when you hear an ad on the radio saying you "save $5.00 off hydrangeas,"  using poor grammar, making no sense and disgracing a once-polished usage of our English language. 

Well-kept cemeteries are living reminders that we humans still remember our dead. Semper Fi!