The forgotten history of Memorial Day : comparemela.com

(The Conversation) - In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country. The holiday was Memorial Day, an annual commemoration that was born in the former Confederate States in 1866 and a

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