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Showing posts with label memorial day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial day. Show all posts
Monday, May 28, 2012
Monday, May 30, 2011
Memorial Day 2011
As the flowers rest on the decorated graves and the sunlight shines on the beautiful sailboats, Uncle Sam whispers in my ear about how we should care for the soldiers and remember the ones that have died.
Swimming pools open, BBQs fry. Today is the day to think of what they have done for us.
There are blurs of red, white and blue marching down the street and flags are lowered at half-mast.
But we should always remember and never forget what set us free, from this very day on.
© 2001 Ali M., 3rd Grader, Academy Elementary School, Madison, Connecticut.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Monday, May 25, 2009
Happy Memorial Day
We hope everyone has a safe and happy
Memorial Day.
And, as always, our deepest thanks go to the
men and women in the military
who have died while in service to our country.
Love, Margie and Edna
Monday, May 26, 2008
Memorial Day 2008
American Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) first began as a tribute to fallen Civil War soldiers. Various towns throughout America had been honoring their lost veterans for several years after the official end of the war. However, it was first widely recognized and celebrated on May 30, 1868, by proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic.
“In 1966, the federal government, under the direction of President Lyndon Johnson, declared Waterloo, N.Y., the official birthplace of Memorial Day. They chose Waterloo—which had first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866—because the town had made Memorial Day an annual, community-wide event during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags.”
In 1971, US Congress declared that Memorial Day would be observed as a national holiday, which would be celebrated on the last Monday in May. And after World War I, many communities across America began to use Memorial Day to honor those soldiers who died in all of America’s wars.Please take a moment today to say some words of thanks to all soldiers, living or dead, who have fought bravely and sacrificed so much to protect our freedoms.
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