As we celebrate the long weekend, graduations and the unofficial beginning of the summer, it’s important to remember the meaning of the holiday. Memorial Day was first enacted as a federal holiday in 1868, at the end of the Civil War, to honor fallen Union soldiers. After World War I, the scope of holiday was [...]
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Memorial Day
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