Celebrate Memorial Day!
(Don't just have a picnic!)
| When was the first Memorial Day held? Originally known as Decoration Day because it was a time set aside to honor the nation's Civil War dead by decorating their graves, Memorial Day was first widely observed on May 30,1868, to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers, by proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of former sailors and soldiers. When was Memorial Day made a holiday? While by the late 1800s many communities across the country had begun to celebrate Memorial Day, adding (after World War I) observances to honor those who had died in all of America's wars, it wasn't until 1971 that Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday to be celebrated the last Monday in May. Does Memorial Day really have an official birthplace? It certainly does - In 1966, the federal government, under the direction of President Lyndon Johnson, declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day. They chose Waterloo-which had first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866-because the town had made Memorial Day an annual, community-wide event during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags. |
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