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309: 687: 574:. Boalsburg promotes itself as the birthplace of Memorial Day. However, no published reference to this event has been found earlier than the printing of the History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1904. In a footnote to a story about her brother, Mrs. Sophie (Keller) Hall described how she and Emma Hunter decorated the grave of Emma's father, Reuben Hunter, and then the graves of all soldiers in the cemetery. The original story did not account for Reuben Hunter's death occurring two months later on September 19, 1864. It also did not mention Mrs. Elizabeth Myers as one of the original participants. A bronze statue of all three women gazing upon Reuben Hunter's grave now stands near the entrance to the Boalsburg Cemetery. Although July 4, 1864, was a Monday, the town now claims that the original decoration was on one of the Sundays in October 1864. 863: 720: 918: 624: 937:"—one with no association with any religious denomination or viewpoint—that has incorporated Memorial Day as a sacred event. With the Civil War, a new theme of death, sacrifice, and rebirth enters the civil religion. Memorial Day gave ritual expression to these themes, integrating the local community into a sense of nationalism. The American civil religion, in contrast to that of France, was never anticlerical or militantly secular; in contrast to Britain, it was not tied to a specific denomination, such as the 764: 56: 525:, "Southern women decorated the graves of soldiers even before the Civil War’s end. Records show that by 1865, Mississippi, Virginia, and South Carolina all had precedents for Memorial Day." The earliest Southern Memorial Day celebrations were simple, somber occasions for veterans and their families to honor the dead and tend to local cemeteries. In following years, the Ladies' Memorial Association and other groups increasingly focused rituals on preserving Confederate culture and the 4279: 615:. With his proclamation, Logan adopted the Memorial Day practice that had begun in the Southern states two years earlier. The northern states quickly adopted the holiday. In 1868, memorial events were held in 183 cemeteries in 27 states, and 336 in 1869. One author claims that the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of any particular battle. Logan's wife noted that the date was chosen because it was the optimal date for flowers to be in bloom in the North. 538: 1454: 799: 280: 378:, the recently freed Black population held a parade of 10,000 people to honor 257 dead Union soldiers. The soldiers had been buried in a mass grave at the Washington Race Course, having died at the Confederate prison camp located there. After the city fell, the freed Black population unearthed and properly buried the soldiers, placing flowers at their graves. The event was reported contemporaneously in the 1440: 2972: 679:, commemorations were extensive. The more than 600,000 soldiers of both sides who fought and died in the Civil War meant that burial and memorialization took on new cultural significance. Under the leadership of women during the war, an increasingly formal practice of decorating graves had taken shape. In 1865, the federal government also began creating the 667:, as the holder of the title. This action followed House Concurrent Resolution 587, in which the 89th Congress had officially recognized that the patriotic tradition of observing Memorial Day had begun one hundred years prior in Waterloo, New York. The legitimacy of this claim has been called into question by several scholars. 409:. . . e can keep alive the memory of debt we owe them by dedicating at least one day in the year, by embellishing their humble graves with flowers, therefore we beg the assistance of the press and the ladies throughout the South to help us in the effort to set apart a certain day to be observed, from the 290:
A variety of cities and people have claimed origination of Memorial Day. In some such cases, the claims relate to documented events, occurring before or after the Civil War. Others may stem from general traditions of decorating soldiers' graves with flowers, rather than specific events leading to the
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While these customs may have inspired in part rituals to honor military dead like Memorial Day, numerous differences exist between Decoration Day customs and Memorial Day, including that the date is set differently by each family or church for each cemetery to coordinate the maintenance, social, and
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Memorial Day speeches became an occasion for veterans, politicians, and ministers to commemorate the Civil War and, at first, to rehash the "atrocities" of the enemy. They mixed religion and celebratory nationalism, allowing Americans to make sense of their history in terms of sacrifice for a better
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By the 20th century, various Union memorial traditions, celebrated on different days, merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who fought and died while in the U.S. military service. Indiana from the 1860s to the 1920s saw numerous debates on how to expand the celebration.
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According to scholars Alan and Karen Jabbour, "the geographic spread ... from the Smokies to northeastern Texas and Liberia, offer strong evidence that the southern Decoration Day originated well back in the nineteenth century. The presence of the same cultural tradition throughout the Upland South
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to decorate the graves of the Confederate soldiers. They also felt moved to honor the Union soldiers buried there, and to note the grief of their families, by decorating their graves as well. The story of their gesture of humanity and reconciliation is held by some writers as the inspiration of the
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played a key role in using Memorial Day rituals to preserve Confederate culture. Various dates ranging from April 25 to mid-June were adopted in different Southern states. Across the South, associations were founded, many by women, to establish and care for permanent cemeteries for the Confederate
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on the day itself, the post assembled and marched to the local cemetery to decorate the graves of the fallen, an enterprise meticulously organized months in advance to assure that none were missed. Finally came a simple and subdued graveyard service involving prayers, short patriotic speeches, and
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The holiday was observed in Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Columbus and elsewhere in Georgia as well as Montgomery, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi, and across the South. In some cities, mostly in Virginia, other dates in May and June were
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In 1913, an Indiana veteran complained that younger people born since the war had a "tendency ... to forget the purpose of Memorial Day and make it a day for games, races, and revelry, instead of a day of memory and tears". In 1911 the scheduling of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway car race, later
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In 1868, some Southern public figures began adding the label "Confederate" to their commemorations and claimed that Northerners had appropriated the holiday. The first official celebration of Confederate Memorial Day as a public holiday occurred in 1874, following a proclamation by the Georgia
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of predominantly Christian cultures in 19th century Southern Appalachia with pre-Christian influences from Scotland, Ireland, and African cultures. Appalachian and Liberian cemetery decoration traditions are thought to have more in common with one another than with United States Memorial Day
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gave the main address. Heflin was a noted orator; his choice as Memorial Day speaker was criticized, as he was opposed for his support of segregation; however, his speech was moderate in tone and stressed national unity and goodwill, gaining him praise from newspapers.
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By the 1880s, ceremonies were becoming more consistent across geography as the GAR provided handbooks that presented specific procedures, poems, and Bible verses for local post commanders to utilize in planning the local event. Historian Stuart McConnell reports:
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After the Civil War, search and recovery teams visited hundreds of battlefields, churchyards, plantations and other locations seeking wartime interments that were made in haste. By 1870, the remains of nearly 300,000 Civil War dead were reinterred in 73 national
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are a tradition which arose by the 19th century. Decoration practices are localized and unique to individual families, cemeteries, and communities, but common elements that unify the various Decoration Day practices are thought to represent
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to the press on March 11, 1866 asking for assistance in establishing an annual holiday to decorate the graves of soldiers throughout the South. The letter was reprinted in several southern states and the plans were noted in newspapers in
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decorated the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers according to her account. The first reference to this event however did not appear until many years later. Mention of the observance is inscribed on the southeast panel of the
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turned it into a day of remembrance for all members of the U.S. military who fought and died in service. In 1971, Congress standardized the holiday as "Memorial Day" and changed its observance to the last Monday in May.
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they saved from dishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as a sacred charge upon a Nation's gratitude—the soldiers' and sailors' widow and orphan.
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In 1873, New York made Decoration Day an official state holiday and by 1890, every northern state had followed suit. There was no standard program for the ceremonies, but they were typically sponsored by the
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Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.
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and be handed down through time as a religious custom of the country, to wreathe the graves of our martyred dead with flowers. . . Let the soldiers’ graves, for that day at least, be the Southern
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argues for the age of the tradition, which was carried westward (and eastward to Africa) by nineteenth-century migration and has survived in essentially the same form till the present."
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was the founder of Memorial Day. However, Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis tried to make the case that it was Lincoln's funeral that spurred the soldiers' grave decorating that followed.
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attended a YWCA Overseas War Secretaries' conference three years later wearing a silk poppy pinned to her coat and distributed over two dozen more to others present. The
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dead, organize commemorative ceremonies, and sponsor appropriate monuments as a permanent way of remembering the Confederate dead. The most important of these was the
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traditions which are focused on honoring the military dead. Appalachian and Liberian cemetery decoration traditions pre-date the United States Memorial Day holiday.
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In the national capital in 1913 the four-day "Blue-Gray Reunion" featured parades, re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including President
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Sacco, Nicholas W. (2015). "The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis 500, and the Struggle for Memorial Day in Indiana, 1868–1923".
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Official recognition as a holiday spread among the states, beginning with New York in 1873. By 1890, every Union state had adopted it. The
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Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865.
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Memorial Day: Its Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse, with a Non-sectional Anthology of the Civil War
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It is a day for visiting cemeteries and memorials to mourn the military personnel who died in the line of duty. Volunteers will place
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has called this commemoration the first Memorial Day. However, no direct link has been established between this event and General
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issued a proclamation calling for "Decoration Day" to be observed annually and nationwide; he was commander-in-chief of the
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Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era
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Blight, David W. "Decoration Day: The Origins of Memorial Day in North and South" in Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, eds.
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Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the unofficial beginning of summer. (
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The name "Memorial Day", which was first attested in 1882, gradually became more common than "Decoration Day" after
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Since 1867, Brooklyn, New York, has held an annual Memorial Day parade which it claims to be the nation's oldest.
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nation. People of all religious beliefs joined, made that German and Irish soldiers â€“ ethnic minorities that
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position, where it remains only until noon. It is then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day. The
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with originating the "idea of strewing the graves of Civil War soldiers—Union and Confederate" with flowers.
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Cherry, Conrad. "Two American Sacred Ceremonies: Their Implications for the Study of Religion in America",
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David Blight, cited by Campbell Robertson, "Birthplace of Memorial Day? That Depends Where You're From",
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but was not declared the official name by federal law until 1967. On June 28, 1968, Congress passed the
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observed. General John Logan commented on the observances in a speech to veterans on July 4, 1866, in
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designated an "official" birthplace of the holiday by signing the presidential proclamation naming
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Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians
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in 1906. This decoration was for the funeral of the first soldier killed during the Civil War,
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of Philadelphia urged the decoration of patriot's graves. E.J., "The Soldier's Grave", in
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on November 11, which honors all those who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
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national proclamation. Soldiers' graves were decorated in the U.S. before and during the
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in Jackson, erected in 1891. Vaughan's account is contradicted by contemporary sources.
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to observe May 30, 1868, the earlier version of the holiday began to be referred to as
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The first national observance of Memorial Day occurred on May 30, 1868. Then known as
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On July 4, 1864, ladies decorated soldiers' graves according to local historians in
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Two other days celebrate those who have served or are serving in the U.S. military:
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for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the
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The Good Fight That Didn't End: Henry P. Goddard's Accounts of Civil War and Peace
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argues, the theme of American nationalism shared equal time with the Confederate.
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Albanese, Catherine. "Requiem for Memorial Day: Dissent in the Redeemer Nation",
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have also had an ongoing parade since 1868. However, the Memorial Day parade in
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towns are often marked by dedications and remarks by veterans and politicians.
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United States Code, 2006, Supplement 1, January 4, 2007, to January 8, 2008
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is raised briskly to the top of the staff and then solemnly lowered to the
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legislature. By 1916, ten states celebrated it, on June 3, the birthday of
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Act, asking people to stop and remember at 3:00 pm. On Memorial Day, the
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and observed on May 30, the holiday was proclaimed by Commander in Chief
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of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of
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depicting Civil War veterans parading during Decoration Day, 1896
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adopted in 1920 the poppy as its official symbol of remembrance.
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and local officials wanted the big race to continue, so Governor
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soldier's grave to be decorated, according to an article in the
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Wilfrid Laurier U.P. pp. 48–53. 3059:from the original on September 18, 2018 3049:"The forgotten history of Memorial Day" 2180: 2178: 2176: 2174: 2172: 2170: 1997:from the original on September 19, 2017 1626: 1590:(Israeli memorial day), the day before 884:Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War 4783:(CA, FL, NY, WI, WV, proposed federal) 4751:Presentation of Our Lord to the Temple 4734:National Girls and Women in Sports Day 4555:Feast of Epiphany / Feast of Theophany 4135:from the original on December 31, 2016 4027:from the original on February 24, 2021 3900:Spencer C. Tucker (October 28, 2014). 2968:General John Logan, Quoted By His Wife 2845:Muffly, J. W. (Joseph Wendel) (1904). 2019:In 1817, for example, a writer in the 1707:from the original on December 21, 2019 1650: 1648: 878:is the unofficial end of summer.) The 854:vetoed the bill and the race went on. 814:, the first Southerner elected to the 681:United States National Cemetery System 455:of Columbus. They were represented by 6622:Federal holidays in the United States 6412:National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 6164:Native American Indian Heritage Month 5986:Disability Employment Awareness Month 5821:Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day 5140:Chandramana Uugadi / Souramana Uugadi 4316:Federal holidays in the United States 3390:from the original on January 22, 2019 3380:"Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia" 2201:from the original on October 27, 2020 2155:from the original on October 30, 2019 192:federal holidays in the United States 7: 6652:Recurring events established in 1868 6647:Public holidays in the United States 6584:Public holidays in the United States 5868:His Holiness Sakya Trizin's Birthday 5827:Constitution Day and Citizenship Day 5715:Hawaii Admission Day / Statehood Day 5007:Prince Jonah KĆ«hiƍ KalanianaÊ»ole Day 3729:Encyclopedia of Religion and Society 3604:"Memorial Day, 3 p.m.: Don't Forget" 3441:. Cornell University Press. p.  2890:from the original on August 30, 2019 2382:. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2064:. Perseus.tufts.edu. July 15, 1906. 1903:U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs 1826: 1824: 1822: 1820: 1818: 1816: 1797:. National Cemetery Administration. 1765:Library of Congress, Washington, D.C 910:takes place on the west lawn of the 27:Federal holiday in the United States 6642:Observances honoring victims of war 6570:Title 36 Observances and Ceremonies 6342:Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib 6077:Native American Day in South Dakota 5387:National Defense Transportation Day 4537:Birthday of Eugenio MarĂ­a de Hostos 4528:Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4335:Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. 3732:. Rowman Altamira. pp. 49–50. 3697:"The National Memorial Day Concert" 1989:L'Hommedieu Gardiner, Mary (1842). 1960:"The Center for Civil War Research" 1930:"Where Did Memorial Day Originate?" 1841:U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 793:Anti-German sentiment#United States 749:United Daughters of the Confederacy 6657:Title 36 of the United States Code 6617:Annual events in the United States 5585:Birthday of Dr. JosĂ© Celso Barbosa 3881:from the original on June 25, 2017 3556:from the original on March 4, 2016 3218:from the original on June 12, 2020 2849:. 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HarperCollins. p. 165. 3348:Memorial Day: Its True History 3136:"Barack Obama, Weekly Address" 3114:. Gale Research. p. 215. 2792:. Civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu. 2740:. Universbuttse Memorial Day. 2567:"A Real Story of Memorial Day" 1964:www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu 1343:In film, literature, and music 896:National Moment of Remembrance 441:Department of Veterans Affairs 327:was the location of the first 246:Department of Veterans Affairs 1: 6100:Sukkot / Feast of Tabernacles 5982:Breast Cancer Awareness Month 5970:Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement 5128:Easter Monday / Bright Monday 4871:Irish-American Heritage Month 4248:. BiblioBazaar reprint 2010. 4123:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 4017:Hooker, Elizabeth R. (1933). 3525:. Globe Pequot. p. 233. 3433:Samito, Christian G. 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Epstein (2002). 3416:Indiana Magazine of History 3335:Retrieved February 24, 2015 2090:Bloomington, IN (2006), 42. 1761:"Today in History – May 30" 1726:Yan, Holly (May 26, 2016). 659:On May 26, 1966, President 649:Arlington National Cemetery 453:Ladies Memorial Association 285:Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 61:Arlington National Cemetery 6678: 6272:(HI, unofficial, cultural) 6071:National School Lunch Week 5691:Dormition of the Theotokos 5611:(HI, unofficial, cultural) 5440:Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and 5367:(CA, IL, proposed federal) 5343:International Workers' Day 4969:(AL (in two counties), LA) 4961:Liberation and Freedom Day 4467:Uniform Monday Holiday Act 4414:Election Day/Democracy Day 3646:Emily Post's Etiquette, 18 3301:McConnell, Stuart (1997). 2999:September 7, 2017, at the 2720:. Clio Press. p. 190. 1608:Memorial Day (South Korea) 1486:American Revolutionary War 1427:'s "Decoration Day" (1882) 1425:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1313:Decoration Day (tradition) 1310: 1307:Decoration Day (tradition) 1021: 968: 836:Uniform Monday Holiday Act 781:Grand Army of the Republic 712: 609:Grand Army of the Republic 490:Grand Army of the Republic 376:Charleston, South Carolina 370:Charleston, South Carolina 230:Grand Army of the Republic 196:United States Armed Forces 36: 29: 6556: 6430:Pan American Aviation Day 6188:Ascension of ‘Abdu’l Baha 5880:National Grandparents Day 5852:(NY, cultural, religious) 5733:Lyndon Baines Johnson Day 5482:Fast of the Holy Apostles 5220:Last Friday of Great Lent 5179:Birthday of JosĂ© de Diego 5157:Confederate History Month 4949:L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday 4645:(NY, cultural, religious) 4214:January 12, 2017, at the 4169:January 12, 2017, at the 3958:"What is Decoration Day?" 3635:Post, Peggy; Post, Anna; 3386:. University of Georgia. 3363:– via Google Books. 3081:Blight, David W. (2001). 2983:– via Google Books. 2911:"Decoration Day Exercise" 2718:America, history and life 2455:– via Google Books. 2399:– via Google Books. 2365:– via Google Books. 2331:– via Google Books. 2111:Bellware, Daniel (2014). 2047:January 19, 2022, at the 1993:. J. Libby. p. 296. 1592:Independence Day (Israel) 900:flag of the United States 868:United States Marine Band 675:In April 1865, following 517:Other Southern precedents 53: 6294:Trans Day of Remembrance 5815:California Admission Day 5313:Ascension of BahĂĄÊŒu'llĂĄh 5185:Confederate Memorial Day 4585:Makar Sankranti / Pongal 4092:Anania, Michael (1994). 3753:Cristi, Marcela (2001). 3476:(1972) 34#3 pp. 194–205. 3384:New Georgia Encyclopedia 2909:Woodman, Wlliam (1891). 2376:Kammen, Michael (2011). 2051:Snopes.com, May 25, 2018 1504:Confederate Memorial Day 1421:'s "Memorial Day" (1994) 1009:National American Legion 999:. 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Index

Memorial Day weekend
Memorial Day (disambiguation)
Decoration Day (disambiguation)

Arlington National Cemetery
Federal
U.S. military
Decoration of military graves
American flags
federal holidays in the United States
United States Armed Forces
the last Monday
summer
American flags
national cemeteries
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Union
American Civil War
National Cemetery Administration
Department of Veterans Affairs
Mary Ann Williams
world wars
Armed Forces Day
Veterans Day

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
American Civil War

Richmond, Virginia

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