ok, so memorial day is a made-up holiday, an add-on to all-soul's day specific to war dead.....i do not care about the details...i just needed a day to sit and read on the deck and drink wine and do nothing.......................i have finished the red tent......i did not like the ending, as i knew how it would end..........so bibilical...........but moving as a whole............a curious read for a feminist...so many conflicting issues...............