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5/30/16 Take a moment and remember...
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<blockquote data-quote="Lambeau" data-source="post: 15321045" data-attributes="member: 105189"><p><img src="http://www.suvcw.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/decoration-day-190x300.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>From: <a href="http://www.usmemorialday.org/?page_id=2" target="_blank">http://www.usmemorialday.org/?page_id=2</a></p><p></p><p><em>Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America. Over two dozen cities and towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Regardless of the exact date or location of its origins, one thing is clear – Memorial Day was borne out of the Civil War and a desire to honor our dead. It was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11. “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,” he proclaimed. The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle.</em></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #FF0000">Red Poppies:</span></strong><u><em></em></u></p><p><u><em>In 1915, inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields,” Moina Michael replied with her own poem:</em></u></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">We cherish too, the Poppy red</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">That grows on fields where valor led,</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">It seems to signal to the skies</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">That blood of heroes never dies.</span></strong></span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1429871[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0066ff"><strong><u>National Moment of Remembrance</u></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #0066ff"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #0066ff"><strong>The “National Moment of Remembrance” resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans “To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to ‘Taps.”</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lambeau, post: 15321045, member: 105189"] [IMG]http://www.suvcw.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/decoration-day-190x300.jpg[/IMG] From: [url]http://www.usmemorialday.org/?page_id=2[/url] [I]Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America. Over two dozen cities and towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. Regardless of the exact date or location of its origins, one thing is clear – Memorial Day was borne out of the Civil War and a desire to honor our dead. It was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11. “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,” he proclaimed. The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle.[/I] [B][COLOR="#FF0000"]Red Poppies:[/COLOR][/B][U][I] In 1915, inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields,” Moina Michael replied with her own poem:[/I][/U] [COLOR="#FF0000"][B][SIZE=2]We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR] [ATTACH=full]1429871[/ATTACH] [COLOR="#0066ff"][B][U]National Moment of Remembrance[/U] The “National Moment of Remembrance” resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans “To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to ‘Taps.”[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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