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Nearly 150 years ago, Memorial Day— first called Decoration Day...

  • Writer: David Garrison
    David Garrison
  • May 29, 2017
  • 1 min read


Nearly 150 years ago, Memorial Day— first called Decoration Day— was set aside to decorate the graves of the men who’d recently died in battle. America was still reeling from the Civil War when Gen. John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a proclamation in 1868, according to a PBS account of his decision. “The 30th of May,” he declared, “would be an occasion to honor those who died in the conflict.”


 
 
 

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