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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.
While these customs may have inspired in part rituals to honor military dead like Memorial Day, numerous differences exist between Decoration Day customs and Memorial Day, including that the date is set differently by each family or church for each cemetery to coordinate the maintenance, social, and spiritual aspects of decoration.
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.
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 ...
On the first Decoration Day, 20,000 graves at Arlington Cemetery were decorated, and future President James Garfield gave a speech. By 1890, all Northern states recognized Decoration Day as a holiday.
Established more than 150 years ago, Memorial Day is intended to honor and remember U.S. military personnel lost in war and is often commemorated with parades and special services.
He issued an GAR order, establishing a National Decoration Day, which was later passed by Congress. Today it is known as Memorial Day. [5] In 2014, Bellware and Gardiner dismissed this claim in The Genesis of the Memorial Day Holiday in America.
I support Decoration day (tradition) the most, but literally any title that removes the current disambiguation is an improvement. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 20:05, 27 December 2021 (UTC) I would just like to add belatedly, that Decoration Day traditions are quite distinct from Memorial Day, and is a ongoing vital tradition in Appalachia.