Carol Anne Costa: Memorial Day -- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Carol Anne Costa: Memorial Day -- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

It is in the images of Memorial Day the sacrifices of many become clear. The simple beauty of a crepe poppy is where the understanding of  toll of war is made obvious and that red flower becomes a connection to the next generation. The enduring memorials, names carved in stone, hand placed flags on headstones, forged placards chronicling dates and conflicts help us to realize these dedications and memoriams are the work of grateful Americans. And, where the stones worn through the passage of time cannot diminish the effort and passion of those who thought to build them, fund them, tend them and place them so carefully for each generation to remember.  

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Memorial Day -- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

World War II Memorial, Washington, DC

World War II Memorial, Washington, DC

World War II Memorial, Washington, DC

Rhode Island Womens Veterans Memorial at the RI Veterans Cemetery, Exeter, RI

Rhode Island Womens Veterans Memorial, Exeter, RI

Veterans Marker at the North Scituate Burial Ground

The gravesite at St. Anne's Cemetery in Cranston where my grandfather, Manuel Costa is buried. He served in World War I.

Civil War Memorial Statue, Scituate, RI

Cranston Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial, Cranston RI
 

Kelley Gazzero VFW Post, Cranston, RI

Johnston VFW Post, Johnston, RI

Veterans Memorial at St. Anne's Cemetery, Cranston, RI

Crepe poppies at the American Legion

VFW Wreath

North Scituate Civil War Memorial