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Decoration Day is a national holiday in Liberia, a nation which was settled starting in 1822 by free and formerly enslaved African Americans. Decoration Day was designated a national holiday and set as the second Wednesday in March by an Act approved on October 24, 1916.
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
Markley, Texas. Markley is an unincorporated community in Young County, Texas, United States. [1] It is located at the intersection of State Highway 16 and Farm to Market Road 1769, in the northeastern corner of Young County, approximately 21 [2] miles from Graham. As of the 2000 Census, the population was estimated to be 50.
Memorial Day was officially established as a federal holiday in 1971, but the tradition of honoring fallen soldiers began over a century prior. Originally deemed Decoration Day, the first Memorial ...
Read on to learn more about the true meaning of Memorial Day, as well as some interesting Memorial Day facts and Memorial Day history. When is Memorial Day 2024? This year, Memorial Day falls on ...
Memorial Day is one of 11 federal holidays observed each year and is set aside to honor and remember military servicemen and women whose lives were lost while serving their country.
In 1987, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was added as a federal holiday for the third Monday in January, and in that year the Texas Legislature made it an optional state holiday, and in 1991 they made MLK Day an official state holiday. In some years (1987, 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2026) MLK Jr. Day and Confederate Heroes Day fall on the same day.
In the Antebellum South, families and churches had a long tradition of cleaning the burial sites of their cherished dead and decorating the graves with flowers. [1] These decoration days usually took place in spring or early summer when flowers were in full bloom and often included religious memorial services.