…a day of remembrance.  Although we associate Memorial Day with being a welcoming three day week-end that heralds the beginning of summer with people going to the shore, municipal pools opening and the barbecue masters of the house firing up the grill, it is a day we should first and foremost honor those brave men and woman who have died in service to our country.  The first Memorial Day was May 30th 1868 when Union General John Logan declared the day an occasion to decorate the  graves of the Civil War Soldiers. Twenty years later the name was changed officially to Memorial Day.  On May 11, 1950 Congress passed a resolution requesting that the President issue a proclamation calling on Americans to observe each Memorial Day as a day of prayer for permanent peace and designating a period on that day when the people of the United States might unite in prayer. In 1971 President Nixon declared it a federal holiday and from that time on it was to be on the last Monday in May.  May was chosen because in most parts of the country the flowers  are starting to bloom, and as flowers were one of the ways the graves were decorated.   We honor those who fought so valiantly, and who bravely gave their lives for our freedom, they are our bold angels.  This Memorial Day we should include another group of bold angels that have been lost to another enemy, an enemy right here in our country, the coronavirus. Almost 100,000 Americans have died in just a few short months.  We honor them all and unite in prayer that their families find peace also through prayer and memories.