91 days ago by stushie

It’s Decoration Day here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Some people will go down to the Old National cemetery in Civil War uniforms and costumes. I know that the Confederate Flag is highly controversial, and I don’t agree with what some people use it for, but artistically, it’s a beautiful design and this ...

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95 days ago by Tim

Yesterday, was a great day and an really bad one too. Why it was great: I attended my first Decoration Day Celebration with my family and was able to ride the Cades Cove loop with my son. Previous to yesterday, I had little knowledge of Decoration Day. To the relatives and families of those burried ...

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98 days ago by Steam Powered Opinions

Yesterday was Decoration Day and it completely slipped my mind. The good historians over at The Edge of the American West explain the holiday that was intended to commemorate Civil War soldiers. And here's a video of The Drive-By-Truckers playing the Jason Isbell penned song "Decoration Day"

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99 days ago by Erika Cass Designs

In an event similar to ones involving countless Scout groups across the country this past weekend, many of our local Boy Scouts met at the Fort Sam Houston Cemetery for the annual Flags at Fort Sam in honor of Memorial Day. The Memorial Day holiday takes place on the last Monday of May. This holiday ...

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99 days ago by Historical Ken

For my family and I, this past weekend - Memorial Weekend 2008 - was spent at Greenfield Village. And what a time we had! It was the Civil War Remembrance Weekend, and nearly 500 of us reenactors spent the entire weekend wearing period clothing and giving the record-breaking crowd a taste of what li ...

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101 days ago by Fitzgerald

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day. I did, the wife and I celibrated her birthday spending the night at a local hotel Casino and resort. A good time was had by us both. But I could not help but think about Memorial Day and where it comes from, and its connection to the blues. I have heard song ...

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101 days ago by Prissy Sissy Bows

Observing holidays as actual days of remembrance or reflection was never anything that we did growing up. Holidays were seen as a day off for spending time with family. But is there a deeper meaning for the holidays that we have? Since I didn't really know why I was granted a day off from my day job ...

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102 days ago by Deborah Hendrick

I lost count of the Memorial Day stories that came into my feed reader, but I “starred” about two dozen that combined the words “Boy Scouts, “flags,” and “Memorial Day.” I thought I’d try to count the numbers of Scouts (Girl Scouts, too), and the number of veterans graves that the Scouts decorated w ...

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102 days ago by Joe

On Memorial Day, 2008, also called Decoration Day, a parade brought wreaths to decorate a soldiers' memorial at the Seaford NY Middle School. Ten photos of the parade are shown here on Flickr. Please click on each photo to enlarge it and read the descriptive caption.

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102 days ago by GeorgAnna

DECORATION DAY past and present In the olden days, Memorial day was always on the 31st of May, and that meant flowers to the cemetery time. Daddy would pick all the lilacs and iris and anything else we had in the yard. He'd gather up tall tomato juice cans Mom had saved, and put them all in the trun ...

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