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States passed proclamations, and the Army and Navy adopted rules for proper observance at their facilities. The crowd attending the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was approximately the same size as those that attend today’s observance — about 5,000 people. Small ...
While Memorial Day marks the start of summer festivities, the heart of its observance lies in remembering and honoring the brave who sacrificed their lives for our country. Note: Sometimes conditions require cancellations or changes of dates, times and location which are not reflected in the origin...
May 27 marks the 54th official Memorial Day since Congress designated the last Monday of May a national observance in 1971. Memorialization and decoration services date as far back as 1868, during the American Civil War. Memorial Day is woven into the fabric of U.S. history, and the holiday...
The next year, Waterloo honored the fallen in a more formal Memorial Day and it it continued until it ultimately spread throughout the United States. Waterloo is credited with the first-ever official Memorial Day holiday. "Waterloo held the first formal, village wide, annual observance of a d...
observance on May 30 (regardless of the day of the week), to a set day—the last Monday in May. The move has not been without controversy, though. Veterans groups, concerned that more Americans associate the holiday with first long weekend of the summer and not its intended purpose to ...
Jewish theologians and laity have struggled with these questions for decades. The very fact that Jews still identify Jewishly, practice their religion — and have embraced the observance of Yom Hashoah — answers some of the questions raised by the Holocaust....
The day itself is of much importance as well, being the date on which the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Soviet soldiers in 1945. Historically this observance by the Bundestag has included outside speakers who tend to discuss the fact that as human beings we have failed...
But it was clear from the newspaper reports that a Memorial Day observance was organized by freed slaves in Charleston at least a year before other U.S. cities and three years before the first national observance. How had been lost to history for over a century? “This was a story that...