My awful day job is at Dollar General, a discount department/grocery store. At Easter, we got a gazillion artificial flower wreathes and actually had a hard time finding room in the store to keep them all. Now, they're practically sold out, especially all the red white and blue ones. With every sale, I hear Ms. Jane Darwell playing Mrs Merriweather and her distinctively snooty voice voice saying to "honor the graves of our glorious dead"...Anyway That graveyard decorating on that particular weekend really was started by the Lady's Auxiliary in Atlanta in 1868, in recognition of that particularly brutal battle, the fall of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea. I like it when fictiongrabs history by the hand and lights of the page with truth.