Memorial Day 2003 - - "The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart... should swell into a mighty chorus of remembrance, gratitude and rededication on this solemn occasion. - Abraham Lincoln

Memorial Day Event

Along with other Americans, you are asked to spend a Moment of Remembrance on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2003 at 3:00 p.m. local time (duration: one minute). The time 3:00 p.m. was chosen because it is the time when many Americans are enjoying their freedoms on the national holiday. { Read More }

Down a road to a house and a memory
By John Eudy

Note: John Eudy went to school at Ackerman from 1st to 3rd grade. His parents owned the Ackerman Theatre. John is now retired and lives in Houston, Texas where he writes for the Houston Chronicle. Read his Memorial Day commentary below and send him an email.

While many on this Memorial Day will reach for the mental remote control and try to change the channel from remembrance to "what's happening now," we cannot escape the reality that our national well-being has a human cost marked in the lives of the men and women of our armed forces. { Read the commentary in the Houston Chronicle }

10-year-old ditches wheelchair to plant flags in front of headstones { Read this Memorial Day article in The Tennessean }

Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than Taps. { Read More }

President's Memorial Day Proclamation