lets please remember why we get to enjoy this day and every day. May the LORD JESUS bless the souls of all our fallen military heroes because that’s what they are brother, heroes. Enjoy your day
Sorry guys I was thinking it was Monday but hopefully you get my point. I was off work Friday and I was thinking it was Monday
lets please remember why we get to enjoy this day and every day. May the LORD JESUS bless the souls of all our fallen military heroes because that’s what they are brother, heroes. Enjoy your day
We are (free) because they were (heroes)!
Sorry guys I was thinking it was Monday but hopefully you get my point. I was off work Friday and I was thinking it was Monday
No need to apologize Southern. Hopefully, your friendly reminder will get us all thinking straight for tomorrow. Actually, Memorial day used to be this Thursday (remember when it was May 30th, before the monday holiday bill was passed?)
Interesting fact about Memorial Day...
The honoring of fallen soldiers started in the South after the Civil War, and a few years later was emulated in the North as "Decoration Day". Both the Union and Confederate states had separate days, and mainly only honored their own (Confederate soldiers in the south, Union soldiers in the North). After WWI the southern states moved their date to coincide with the northern states, when all states started to honor ALL fallen american soldiers.
Originally, the North chose May 30th because no significant battles happened on that date, so not to fall on any commemorations for those conflicts. As Bob stated that was later changed when Memorial Day was first observed as a national holiday in 1971 after the Monday Holiday bill was passed.
One other thing... Though "officially" the town of Waterloo, NY is the birthplace of Memorial Day (by Presidential Proclamation), many scholars and research now believe that Mary Anne Williams from Columbus, GA is who started the day of remembrance. She wrote an open letter to a newspapers that women in the south had been keeping the grave-sites clean, but that a day should be set apart for the special attention the fallen soldiers deserved.
She chose April 26th, 1865 as the date, which was was when the Army of Tennessee officially surrendered to Sherman in Durham, NC.
Sorry guys I was thinking it was Monday but hopefully you get my point. I was off work Friday and I was thinking it was Monday
Wait until you retire, you'll never know what day it is for sure until you look at the paper.
Sorry guys I was thinking it was Monday but hopefully you get my point. I was off work Friday and I was thinking it was Monday
Wait until you retire, you'll never know what day it is for sure until you look at the paper.
That is so true, BT II
Thanks for the interesting Memorial Day facts, Roam.
One other thing... Though "officially" the town of Waterloo, NY is the birthplace of Memorial Day (by Presidential Proclamation), many scholars and research now believe that Mary Anne Williams from Columbus, GA is who started the day of remembrance. She wrote an open letter to a newspapers that women in the south had been keeping the grave-sites clean, but that a day should be set apart for the special attention the fallen soldiers deserved.
She chose April 26th, 1865 as the date, which was was when the Army of Tennessee officially surrendered to Sherman in Durham, NC.
Google Boalsburg, PA. The residents there will disagree as to where Memorial Day started.
One other thing... Though "officially" the town of Waterloo, NY is the birthplace of Memorial Day (by Presidential Proclamation), many scholars and research now believe that Mary Anne Williams from Columbus, GA is who started the day of remembrance. She wrote an open letter to a newspapers that women in the south had been keeping the grave-sites clean, but that a day should be set apart for the special attention the fallen soldiers deserved.
She chose April 26th, 1865 as the date, which was was when the Army of Tennessee officially surrendered to Sherman in Durham, NC.
Google Boalsburg, PA. The residents there will disagree as to where Memorial Day started.
I was about to say the same thing. My hometown the first year of my life. 😉
One other thing... Though "officially" the town of Waterloo, NY is the birthplace of Memorial Day (by Presidential Proclamation), many scholars and research now believe that Mary Anne Williams from Columbus, GA is who started the day of remembrance. She wrote an open letter to a newspapers that women in the south had been keeping the grave-sites clean, but that a day should be set apart for the special attention the fallen soldiers deserved.
She chose April 26th, 1865 as the date, which was was when the Army of Tennessee officially surrendered to Sherman in Durham, NC.
Google Boalsburg, PA. The residents there will disagree as to where Memorial Day started.
I went to Penn State, so thanks... I kinda already know about Boalsburg. LMAO.
Boalsburg and literally dozens of other towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. Notice in my post I didn't actually say one specific town was the birthplace, but a woman from the south who wrote an open letter to the papers. This is a verifiable fact.
I believe Boalsburg's claim is that a few women gathered together at the cemetery together in 1864, and over a few years that grew into a more formal gathering of the village. The claim is dismissed by most researchers because a few friends isn't a formalized gathering for a town, just a few people getting together. Obviously the town feels different, as do many other towns in the USA with similar stories.
