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Memorial Day facts and trivia
Memorial day was first
celebrated on May 30, 1868. It was observed by placing flowers on the
graves of Union and Confederate soldiers during the first national
celebration. Gen. James Garfield made a speech at Arlington
National Cemetery, after which around 5,000 participants helped to
decorate the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate
soldiers who were buried there.
Since the late 1950's on the
Thursday just before Memorial day, around 1200 soldiers of the 3d U.S.
Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000
gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery.
On Memorial Day, the flag
should be at half-staff until noon only, then raised to the top of the
staff.
Moina Michael came up with
an idea of wearing red poppies on Memorial day in honor of those who died
serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one, and sold
poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit
servicemen in need.
In the year 2000 the
National Moment of Remembrance Resolution passed. At 3pm on Memorial Day
all Americans are asked to voluntarily and informally observe in their
own way a moment of remembrance and respect by pausing from whatever they
are doing for a moment of silence or listening to Taps.
The south refused to honor
the dead on Memorial Day until after World War I when the meaning of
Memorial Day changed from honoring civil war dead to honoring Americans
who died fighting in any war.
Memorial Day was a response
to the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War, in which some 620,000
soldiers on both sides died. In 1864, women from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania,
put flowers on the graves of their dead from the just-fought Battle of
Gettysburg. The next year, a group of women decorated the graves of
soldiers buried in a Vicksburg, Mississippi, cemetery.
Waterloo, New York., began
holding an annual community service on May 5, 1866. Although many towns
claimed the title, it was Waterloo that won congressional recognition as
the "birthplace of Memorial Day."
Gen. Logan, the speaker at
the Carbondale gathering, also was commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic, an organization of Union veterans. On May 5, 1868, he issued
General Orders No. 11, which set aside May 30, 1868, "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...."
From the practice of
decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, the holiday was long
known as Decoration Day. The name Memorial Day goes back to 1882, but the
older name didn't disappear until after World War II. Federal law
declared "Memorial Day" the official name in 1967.
On May 30, 1868, President
Ulysses S. Grant presided over the first Memorial Day ceremony at
Arlington National Cemetery -- which, until 1864, was Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee's plantation. The principal speaker was James A. Garfield,
a Civil War general, Republican congressman from Ohio and future
president.
General Orders No. 11 stated
that "in this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed,"
but over time several customs and symbols became associated with the
holiday. It is customary on Memorial Day to fly the flag at half staff
until noon, and then raise it to the top of the staff until sunset.
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