GRAND ISLAND - Visitors at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island took a trip back in time to celebrate memorial day this year. The Railroad Town on museum grounds is set in the last decade of the 19th Century, with this year's town taking a trip back to 1899. So what did memorial day look like 120 years ago?

The Director of Interpreter Resources at Stuhr Museum, Kay Cynova, says: "People in communities all across the nation would gather together and to the cemetery to honor the Civil War Soldiers who were buried there."

Emotions were present for participants and spectators alike, as they honored soldiers they never met, from a much different generation.

Stuhr Museum Marketing Director Mike Bockoven explains: "When you're standing in a cemetery, you're hearing words that come from that time frame… it's not hard to lose yourself in that sense of wonder, that sense of emotion"

As fun as Memorial Day festivities are, Cynova wants to make sure everyone remembers the true meaning of Memorial Day.

"The true reason is to remember the sacrifices, to remember the soldiers that gave and died."

She added that losing sight of these reasons could be detrimental to society.

"If we forget about the sacrifices of the past, we are going to be in trouble in the future."