Memorial Day Observance and Its Enduring Meaning
Memorial Day honors and rituals trace from ancient Greco Roman practice to U S observances. Gen John A Logan in 1868 designated May 30 as tribute day and 1874 congress named Memorial Day a national holiday. Graves are decorated while battles like the Wilderness Fort Fisher and Verdun loom in memory.
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John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress
Jim
Tom
Fort Fisher
Marne
Belleau Wood
Verdun
Washington
Rappahannock
Wny
General Logan
Arlington
Graves
Unknown Dead on Muster Rolls of Past Conflicts
Memorial notes recall the Unknown Soldier at Arlington with chaplets and the flag over his grave. Veterans, families, and the nation honor fallen comrades from Civil War to World War I, noting unidentified dead and the ritual rituals of Taps and memory across battles and cemeteries.
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Arlington
Republic
Lee Foe Hart
Washington Star
Tle
Wiebole
War Department
Leen
Heese
Fin Battla
Fredericksburg
Sollebury
N. C
Florence
Wappahannock River
Lee
Salisbury
Soviet
Russia
Maxim Litvinov
Geneva
International Commission of Inquiry
Briand
European Union
Uwitvinov
Arthur Henderson
Dino Grandi
St. Itassin
Commission
Julius Curtius
Forden Milnister
Johann Schober
World Court
Council of the
League of Nations
Council
War era notices and frontier dispatches from Europe and America
Reports cover a Red Cross president and dignitaries in Tours, a German battleship launch at Kiel, U S Army maneuvers in Chicago and New York, and Allied WWI reflections. Included are Vatican-Spain tensions, Alfonso's birthday, King Kai-shek in China, and a humorous Britain vaccination anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Kai-shek
China
People's Convention
Nanking
Republic of China
United States Army
Chicago
New York
B. D. Foulais
Dayton
Ohio
Atlantic
Metropolis
Boston
General MacArthur
Western
Union
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Thermopylae
France
Edward W. Pickard
M. Litvinov
McKelvie
Aen
World Bank For International Settlements
Basel
Switzerland
Gates W. McGarrah
World Bank
Creditanstalt
League of Natons Committee
Horley
Fort Lincoln
G. D
Fort Missoula
Mont
Fort Eustis
Fort D. A. Russell
Texas
Fort Brown
Fort Hunt
Camp Stephen
CD. Little
Ariz
Carp Gurr J. Jones
Miller Field
Chanute Field
United States
Doak
Hoover
Labor Department
Douglas MacArthur
Staf
MacArthur
London
World Grain Conference
Samuel B. McKelvie
American Farm Board
FR. McKalvie
Boulder
Colorado River
Supreme Court of the
Act of Congress
Arizona
Yetta Stromberg
Supreme Court
California
Alberty
American Red Cross
Red Gras
Mex Huber
Litvinov
Baiis Europe
Salitzerland
International Committee of the Red Cross
Post Office Department
Tours
Brix
Hubert H. Dunlap
Marine Corps
Ralph Barton
Pius XI
Spain
Vatican
Tedeschini
Justice de Los Rios
Majica
Vitoria
Madrid
Vardion Segura
Segura
Mujica
Lourdes
Rome
Alfonso
Fontainebleau
Moadrid
German Republic
Kiel
Hindenburg
Ludendorf
Arras Montedidier-Nayon
War Cabinet
Aecoration
Section Sanitaire Americaine
SS.46
A. A
Verdun Strugele
Chemin Des Dames
Mands
Sian
England
Bie Pital Hut
Golder
Oplea
Cardinal Segura
B. D. Foulots
Lieut
Frank E. Hagan
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