By OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
May 25, 2018 The question of why the U.S. celebrates Memorial Day has a clear answer: the holiday now celebrated on the last Monday in May began as a way to remember the approximately 620,000 troops who died during the Civil War. The question of how Americans tend to spend Memorial Day weekend has a clear answer, too: grilling, going to the beach, checking out Memorial Day sales, watching Memorial Day parades, sitting in traffic. But the question of where Memorial Day was started generates a lot of different answers. “Approximately 25 places have been named in connection with the origin of Memorial Day, many of them in the South where most of the war dead were buried,” according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read Article: http://time.com/5291026/memorial-day-started-birthplace-history/ Comments are closed.
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AuthorPhilip Bourgeois |