第二十期 6-2(6/7)-英语听力

[00:00.00]My Civil War veteran grandfathers had special American flags on their graves, [00:06.56]and my grandmother never tired of telling me why they were there. [00:11.38]The emphasis was truly on honoring and remembering the dead, as it is today in many ways. [00:19.03]Of course, we children were interested in the chocolate cake that was always in picnic basket. [00:25.25]This year we celebrated Memorial Day by getting together with good friends in the late afternoon. [00:32.01]All of our dead relatives are buried in Illinois, [00:35.42]about 400 miles from here, so we took no fresh flowers there. [00:40.55]We had hoped our get-together would be a picnic in the backyard of a friend, [00:45.46]but it rained so we had our picnic indoors. Still it was good to be with friends.