Dear Editor,When I was growing-up, today’s holiday known as “Memorial Day” was referred to by my parents by its original name “Decoration Day” which always landed on May 30th. In recent years, due to a push to move federal holidays to Monday observances regardless of the original date: It is nice that this year’s 2016 calendar allows the last Monday in May to allow “Memorial Day” to be commemorated on its original May 30 date.While “Memorial Day” or “Decoration Day” was designed to place flowers on honored “War Dead”, members of the military who had served their country in the Armed Services who had died while serving, many families, including my own parents, placed flowers or wreaths on graves of all deceased family members and loved ones.The holiday was established in the year 1868. The holiday should not be confused with “Veterans Day” which celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, on Nov. 11, the anniversary of the ending or Armistice of World War I.As for myself, when my health and schedule permits, I like to place flowers on graves on or before “Memorial Day” in the month of May, and due to my own preference I put flowers on all graves in family-plots.