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memorial stone for a police dog, Bedford Ohio

 

Decoration Day

 Wooster Cemetery, Ohio. 1895 monument.

For thousands of years soldiers' graves were decorated with flowers. The biggest, and bloodiest event in American history was the war waged on America by Americans from 1861 to 1865. There were hundreds of thousands of war dead. In 1868 a national convergence was set for the 30th of May, a time when many flowers were in bloom. Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organisation of Union war veterans. General John Logan was the leader of the organisation in 1868, and called for a national commemoration. Cities and states in the North accepted. The southern states had other individual dates for the Confederates.

Gradually, the name 'Memorial Day' gained greater usage. Starting in 1971, with passage of Monday holidays, the holiday was transferred to the last Monday in May, and officially called Memorial Day.

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