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Remembering the meaning of Memorial Day

Remembering the meaning of Memorial Day

It is Memorial Day 2015. In cemeteries across the country flags flutter, flowers grace the graves of the departed, and bugles sound the mournful notes of Taps. The crowds paying tribute, however, have grown sparse. Begun as a way to honor Civil War dead, the commemoration was long called Decoration Day from the practice of […]