Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on memorial day to honor and.
Decoration national day. Whether it is dinner on the grounds and family barbecues decorating a cemetery with flowers and flags or the singing of gospel tunes and playing taps on a trumpet. The holiday is now observed on the last monday of may having been observed on may 30 from 1868 to 1970. Decoration day was made an official national holiday in liberia in on 24 october 1916 with an act of the national legislature. Memorial day previously but now seldom called decoration day is a federal holiday in the united states for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in the united states armed forces.
Military who gave their lives in the service of our country. This week we celebrate memorial day a federal holiday to honor our veterans and remember the men and women of the u s. We will never know for certain if the southern tradition of decoration day was the inspiration for memorial day but the similarities do exist. National decorating month timeline 2000 present the rise of decorating shows on reality tv trading places blazes the trail only to be followed by queer eye extreme makeover and many more.
On the first decoration day general james garfield made a speech at arlington national cemetery after which 5 000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more than 20 000 civil war. Originally known as decoration day this was a day for americans to commemorate the memory of. Decoration day pandemics and the national library of medicine.