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A Most Memorable Memorial Day Memorial Day

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Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	high interest, readability grades 2 to 3
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.73

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		marches, t-shirt, welling, missed, bands, tears, packed, batch, downtown, horseback, doing, scarf, route, serving, shawl, entire
	content words:		Grandma Norma, United States Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom, States Army, Valentines Day, Memorial Day, United States, John Phillip Sousa, Native Americans, Returning Troops

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A Most Memorable Memorial Day By Joyce Furstenau

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¹     Amy missed her mother. She loved her Grandma Norma, but she wanted to see her mom. Amy's mother was serving in the United States Army in Iraq. Her mother had been gone the entire school year. The last time Amy had seen her mother was before school started last fall.
 
²     Amy was proud of her mother and the job she was doing for the United States Army. Amy and Grandma Norma wrote letters to her mother every week. They put their letters in the same envelope and took them to the post office every Friday.
 
³     Amy made her mother a pretty red shawl for Christmas. Grandma Norma helped her get started. She had to finish it by October just so she could get it into the mail in time for Christmas. On Christmas Day, Amy got to talk to her mother on the telephone. She was so happy when she heard her mother's voice, but when it was over, Amy was sad too. Her mother would not be able to celebrate Christmas with them or see her new puppy.
 
⁴     It seemed to Amy that her mother had been away forever. Her mother had missed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's Day with them. Her mother had also missed Amy's 8th birthday. She sent her a red, white, and blue scarf for her birthday. Amy wanted more than anything to be with her mother on her birthday.
 
⁵     Now it was the end of May, and school was almost over for the year. Amy would be starting third grade next fall. Amy wondered if her mother would be home before school started again.

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