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Mesa WWII vet remembers fallen comrades
East Valley Tribune· 25 minutes agoThe Jewish War Veterans organization was created in 1896 by 63 Jewish Civil War veterans to push back on false and anti-Semitic accusations of Jews not...
Learn about the Civil War veterans who were the first Erie soldiers' home residents
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPhil Kearney, and rescued their general." Wharton enlisted in the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry at the...
Memorial Day events in Niles, Skokie, Park Ridge, Morton Grove, Lincolnwood
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoThe Civil War was the deadliest war this country has seen to date, with just under 500,000...
History of Memorial Day
KFGO· 7 hours agoMemorial Day in America, as an annual observance, can be traced back to the end of the Civil War, a war in whi...
Memorial Day 2024: What’s open, closed on Monday?
The Post-Standard· 1 day agoOriginally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971 ...
Readers sound off on Memorial Day, NYC’s speed limit and the Daily Double
New York Daily News· 8 hours agoBrooklyn: Originally, Memorial Day was called Decoration Day. Decoration Day derived from the Civil ...
50 Memorial Day captions to help you reflect and remember
The Today Show via AOL· 16 hours agoOfficially designated a holiday in 1971, Memorial Day has been observed as far back as 1868, when it...
Kentucky governor designates Juneteenth a holiday, bans hairstyle discrimination
theGrio via AOL· 2 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had...
San Francisco Bay Area to hold several events to commemorate Memorial Day
CBS News· 16 hours agoWhat is Memorial Day? Originally named Decoration Day and held on May 30, the commemorative event...
On this day in history, May 23, 1900, Sgt. William H. Carney receives Medal of Honor
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn this day in history, Sgt. William Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor — the first...
