Hi Tamar,

>FWIW, Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day, because people went out to the cemetary and decorated (with flowers and ribbons, presumably) the graves of the war dead...
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It's one of the busiest days of the year (perhaps THE busiest) for many of our clients (cemeteries). Somehow, we manage to still get the day off, primarily because a computer glitch is the last thing they want to worry about on such a busy day. Of course, we still have our moments. Just last Friday, a major client called at four o'clock, seconds before the boss told everyone to go home early, with a problem that needed to be fixed. Fortunately, we were able to get him fixed up shortly after five, but that wasn't a good feeling.