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tackerman
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2007 1:28 am    Post subject: This memorial day Reply with quote
Please remember the reason we have this holiday.

And god bless all those in harm's way.
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Deirdre
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
From today's Writer's Almanac:
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Today is Memorial Day, first observed on this day in 1868 at Arlington National Cemetery, where members of both the Union and Confederate Armies were buried. It was the idea of Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, who said he was creating Memorial Day, "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."



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