{"id":3981,"date":"2018-05-25T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovativehomecare.com\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:42:07","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovativehomecare.com\/staging\/8503\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day | We Will Not Forget | USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Memorial Day<\/strong> is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Memorial Day occurs on Monday, May 28. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Many Americans observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or memorials, holding family gatherings and participating in parades. Unofficially, it marks the beginning of the summer season.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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EARLY OBSERVANCES OF MEMORIAL DAY<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

The\u00a0Civil War, which ended in the spring of 1865, claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history and required the establishment of the country\u2019s first national cemeteries.<\/p>

By the late 1860s, Americans in various towns and cities had begun holding springtime tributes to these countless fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\tEach year on Memorial Day a national moment of remembrance takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Each year on Memorial Day a national moment of remembrance takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time.<\/p>

It is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings. Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo,\u00a0New York, the official\u00a0birthplace of Memorial Day.<\/p>

Waterloo\u2014which first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866\u2014was chosen because it hosted an annual, community-wide event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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DECORATION DAY<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

On May 5, 1868, General John A. Logan, leader of an organization for Northern Civil War veterans, called for a nationwide day of remembrance later that month. \u201cThe 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,\u201d he proclaimed.<\/p>

The date of\u00a0Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn\u2019t the anniversary of any particular battle.<\/p>

On the first Decoration Day, General\u00a0James Garfield\u00a0made a speech at\u00a0Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there.<\/p>

Many Northern states held similar commemorative events and reprised the tradition in subsequent years; by 1890 each one had made Decoration Day an official state holiday. Southern states, on the other hand, continued to honor their dead on separate days until after\u00a0World War I.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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HISTORY OF MEMORIAL DAY<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during World War I the United States found itself embroiled in another major conflict, and the holiday evolved to commemorate American military personnel who died in all wars.<\/p>

For decades, Memorial Day continued to be observed on May 30, the date Logan had selected for the first Decoration Day. But in 1968 Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which established Memorial Day as the last Monday in May in order to create a three-day weekend for federal employees; the change went into effect in 1971. The same law also declared Memorial Day a federal holiday.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MEMORIAL DAY TRADITIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

Cities and towns across the United States host Memorial Day parades each year, often incorporating military personnel and members of veterans\u2019 organizations. Some of the largest parades take place in\u00a0Chicago, New York and\u00a0Washington, D.C.<\/p>

Americans also observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries and memorials. On a less somber note, many people take weekend trips or throw parties and barbecues on the holiday, perhaps because it unofficially marks the beginning of summer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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