Memorial Day is an official holiday in America. Memorial Day reminds us once again the story during the Civil War. Some people booked on that day shows the end of war. This is also a warning to those who died then. The first Memorial Day was officially celebrated in Washington Race Course, Charleston, South Carolina slave blacks.
Memorial Day History
May 1, 1865, over ten thousand people usually have small black celebration on the day of delivery of the decoration. 2,800 children participated in the celebrations, including picnics, singing, dancing and some sermons. Before the Race Course is the mass graves of Union soldiers who died during the war and even a prison camp during the Confederacy.
On May 5, 1866 Memorial Day for the first time in Waterloo, New York said. Many of South America refuses to celebrate the day early, because their aggression against the Union army. But after World War II, all countries now accepted as a national holiday.
Originally, the name Decoration Day to commemorate the day. Memorial Day for the first time in 1882. This name has gained popularity after the Second World War and 28 June 1968 the U. S. Congress passed a law, marking this day as an official holiday.
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