Originally Posted by
waterdog101
as Memorial day comes around once again, I'm thinking of friends and family that have passed on. and I was thinking of my grandmother, and how much respect she had for the dead. she was a poor woman, her husband was a coal miner and was killed in a mine by a rock fall, and left her with 8 girls and a son to raise. so needless to say, my grandmother had a rough life. and didn't always have the money to run to the store and buy everything she needed. like on memorial day, most people would go and buy flowers to place on their loveones grave. but as a small child, I remember my grandmother would start a couple months early, making flowers that she would place on the graves. I remember setting with her and watching her make Roses from rolls of crape paper. she would cut a strip of the paper off the roll and open her scissors, and use the sharp edge to scrape the paper. as she would scrape the paper it would curl up, and she would do several strips and connect them to a wire steam and it would make a beautiful Rose, and using different colors, the graves would be decorated nice. as I remember this, I think what has happen to the respect for the dead. it seams that people nowdays just don't care like they did in years past. have any of you guys family members ever made these hand made flowers like these.
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