Memorial Day Weekend on Useppa I - Thoughts and Pictures by UseppaGin - …. Reunions and visits of families and friends describe this year’s Memorial Day Weekend on Useppa. For a few, it was their first island holiday. For others, it was a years long tradition, a once little girl now a mother. Flags everywhere honored those who fought and died for our country. It was a weekend in the Useppa family tradition.