Please post at least three sentences about what you learned about Memorial Day and/or questions you have about the holiday. Why (and how) do we celebrate this day?
Before researching about Memorial day, I really didn't know anything about it, except that Memorial day honors (commemorates) the men and women who have died fighting for their country. Memorial day is a United States Federal Holiday (so it's a holiday recognized by the government). Memorial day used to be called Deceleration Day. Something that I found interesting is that Memorial Day, is sometimes viewed as the beginning of summer.
This is a picture of troops marching on Memorial Day.
I also found this link which has a memorial day prayer.
Before researching Memorial Day I knew that it was a holiday and that in remembrance of those who died fighting for their country in the military. Memorial Day was first observed to honor those who died in the Civil War fighting as Union soldiers. After WWI Memorial Day became a holiday to honor anyone who died in any war or fighting in the military.
When I read on Wikipedia that Memorial Day " commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country", I began to question why we would need to have such a holiday. Then I read the article from CNN about the soldiers being killed in Iraq. I began to think that we wouldn't need to have such a holiday if we didn't have war. Although now I know that Memorial day originated to remember the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War, I was interested in finding more about all of the war/military events that the U.S. has been involved in. So, I found this page from Wikipedia, and if you scroll down to the section entitled Extraterritorial and major domestic deployments, you'll find a timelineof all of these events.
I also had a question: If Memorial day was originated to remember the Union soldiers, then what happened to the Confederate soldiers? Didn't Abraham Lincoln accept those states back generously?
So lastly, I was wondering where and when the very first Memorial Day was. I found out from this site that lots of cities and towns say that they had the first Memorial Day. But officially, Memorial Day was made an official holiday on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan, the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was first celebrated on May 30, 1868 at Arlington National Cemetery. This site also has some other very interesting details.
Now Memorial Day is celebrated mostly by just having a free day and having picnics with friends and family.
I didn't know much about Memorial Day before looking it up; all I know was that it was a day to commemorate soldiers who have died in previous wars. I looked it up quickly on Wikipedia, and learned a few things. It's always observed on the last Monday of May, and a lot of people consider it the first day of summer because a lot of schools let out near Memorial Day. It started after the Civil War to honor Union soldiers that died. However, it didn't mention anything about Confederate soldiers being honored, which I thought was odd, because the whole country was supposed to be back together again.
I followed a link on the site and found an article about a Confederate Memorial Day which is to honor the Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. It's apparently celebrated on different dates all over the south, ranging from January to June (May 10th in North Carolina... guess we missed it). I found it odd that there would still be a separate Memorial day for confederate soldiers, even after something like 150 years.
One more website I found was the U.S. White House Commission on Remembrance homepage, which is basically a Memorial Day website. It's got some cool links, like a list of people who have died from the Korean War onwards (probably because its hard to get a list from earlier wars).
Before doing more research on Memorial day, I already knew that it was a holiday to recognize all the soldiers that fight for us. I think Memorial day is a very important holiday and I also think its sort of sad that a lot of us (including myself) didnt know anything about Memorial day before doing this assignment. Memorial day is important, especially for the people who dont have to fight in wars, to honor those who do fight. It would be really sad if we didnt recognize people who lose their lives for our country. This is also why we have school off that day.
From the wikipedia article, it says that Lyndon B Johnson was the first president to make this holiday. Why didnt anyone do this sooner?
Why is it on May 25/26? The date seems to have changed a whole lot over the years (the wikipedia article says it was May 5 once) why did it change?
Like many others, I didn't know much about Memorial Day before researching it. I knew basically that it was to honor fallen troops, and that's it.
However, I found out that it's on the last Monday of May and that it was started after the Civil War to honor Union soldiers, like was said in an earlier post. I wonder why they didn't do something like it earlier...
I had heard it was called decoration day so i wanted to know why. It was called decoration day because women in the south were “decorating” graves before the end of the Civil War to honor those that had died in battle.
I also wondered about the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. Memorial Day is to honor those who have died in battle or from battle wounds where Veterans Day is to honor all who have served in the military, living and dead, in wartime and in peace. Veterans Day focuses mainly on honoring the living veterans.
I looked into Memorial Day in other countries and found that Australia has a Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 when they honor their war dead. On Memorial Day in Europe and Asia American flags and flags of the host country are placed on each American veteran’s grave site and the U.S. Ambassador to the host country usually performs some sort of service.
When I was thinking about memorial day I thought: what is the difference between memorial day and veterans day? This is what I found- Q. What is the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day?
A. Many people confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. While those who died are also remembered on Veterans Day, Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military - in wartime or peacetime. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to our national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served - not only those who died - have sacrificed and done their duty. A complete history of Veterans Day, and why it is observed on November 11, can be found on the Veterans Day History Web page.
I found this on- http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetday_faq.asp
This is probably one of the most interesting blog posts we have done, because I know memorial day is my favorite weekend because we get off of school, but I think is was my favorite weekend for the wrong reasons. I know that memorial day is about reflecting people they have fought and died for our country...I think. I believe Bush does a ceremony with veterans.
For me I dont really celebrate it, because I dont have any family members that I know of who have fought for the US, because most of my family is from Italy.
I would like to know of anyone in this class perhaps who does celebrate it, and could give a breif idea of what you do. I would like to know more about the holiday itself like when it came about and was there a significant reason behind it.
I did know a little about Memorial day before researching. I knew that it is a holiday that honors the men and woman that have died fighting for our country. I also knew from watching the news this morning that Memorial day was originally for soldiers that were killed in the civil war.
I find it very interesting, that this Holiday were most people have off school and work don't really understand the true meaning of the Holiday.
I learned that Memorial Day was first started by General John Logan. He declared it on May 5, 1868. This wasn’t the first time that people honored the ones who had died in the war though. For many years before this date people had been honoring these people with flowers and decorating their graves. The first time that people officially did this as a holiday was May 20, 1868. I was wondering why they waited a few weeks after General Logan declared it a holiday.
Just because of my nature I decided to have a look and see if the UK had a Memorial Day to honor their fallen troops. While they don't have a specific memorial day, they do have a couple of days that are very similar.
The first day is Veterans Day (created in 2006), which is more modeled after the US Veterans day and instead of commemorating the people who have died in military service, it just commemorates the people who have served in the military. It also isn't a public holiday.
The second day is much closer to a memorial day. It is called Remembrance Sunday in the UK. It is a day of remembrance commemorating (that is a really difficult word to spell) the end of hostilities in the first World War. In addition to remembering this important event, it also honors the soldiers who died serving their country. While yes, it is like memorial day, my understanding is that is only honors those who have died in the First World War.
Before researching about Memorial day, I didn't know how to spell the word memorial, though, I did know that this holiday is a day to honor all the men and women who died in our various wars. I also knew that we celebrate this day by not having school.
In researching I found that it only focuses on the perished soldiers from world war 1 and world war 2. One way many people honor these people is by flying the U.S. flag at half-staff from dawn until noon.
When doing the readings, and reasearch i found a link that is a good summary of memorial day. I was wondering who President Lyndon Johnson is, i found this link on him. It's a biography
we celebrate memorial day for the obvious reason of recognizing the sacrifices that the troops have made to the country. it really means a lot to the troops, both my grandfathers are veterans and they really take this holiday seriously. while i was in wilmington they had a celebration at the USS North Carolina, a famous WWII battleship named "Showboat" that shot down 14 aircraft in 8 minutes during WWII. Started back in the civil war, Memorial day has recognized our soldiers and will recognize our soldiers during time of war and times of peace.
I have always known what memorial day is. My grandfather was a Gunnery Sergeant, so I have always had a great appreciation of the holiday. After looking at wiki about the holiday, I did not realize that the Indianapolis 500 was always on Memorial day..
I did know that Jack Nicklaus's hardest course design was is used every week of Memorial day to host the "Memorial" tournament. The Memorial tournament is played on Muirfield Village GC. The course was officially dedicated on Memorial Day, May 27, 1974 with a match between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf.
I had known it was a holiday commemorating soldiers who lost their lives in wars but other than that it was just another day i didn't have to go to school. I found it interesting when a website said that there were many cities who said that they started the tradition and that there was a group of women who began decorating graves of soldiers a long time ago.
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Before researching about Memorial day, I really didn't know anything about it, except that Memorial day honors (commemorates) the men and women who have died fighting for their country. Memorial day is a United States Federal Holiday (so it's a holiday recognized by the government). Memorial day used to be called Deceleration Day. Something that I found interesting is that Memorial Day, is sometimes viewed as the beginning of summer.
This is a picture of troops marching on Memorial Day.
I also found this link which has a memorial day prayer.
Before researching Memorial Day I knew that it was a holiday and that in remembrance of those who died fighting for their country in the military. Memorial Day was first observed to honor those who died in the Civil War fighting as Union soldiers. After WWI Memorial Day became a holiday to honor anyone who died in any war or fighting in the military.
When I read on Wikipedia that Memorial Day " commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country", I began to question why we would need to have such a holiday. Then I read the article from CNN about the soldiers being killed in Iraq. I began to think that we wouldn't need to have such a holiday if we didn't have war. Although now I know that Memorial day originated to remember the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War, I was interested in finding more about all of the war/military events that the U.S. has been involved in. So, I found this page from Wikipedia, and if you scroll down to the section entitled Extraterritorial and major domestic deployments, you'll find a timelineof all of these events.
I also had a question: If Memorial day was originated to remember the Union soldiers, then what happened to the Confederate soldiers? Didn't Abraham Lincoln accept those states back generously?
So lastly, I was wondering where and when the very first Memorial Day was. I found out from
this site that lots of cities and towns say that they had the first Memorial Day. But officially, Memorial Day was made an official holiday on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan, the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was first celebrated on May 30, 1868 at Arlington National Cemetery. This site also has some other very interesting details.
Now Memorial Day is celebrated mostly by just having a free day and having picnics with friends and family.
I didn't know much about Memorial Day before looking it up; all I know was that it was a day to commemorate soldiers who have died in previous wars. I looked it up quickly on Wikipedia, and learned a few things. It's always observed on the last Monday of May, and a lot of people consider it the first day of summer because a lot of schools let out near Memorial Day. It started after the Civil War to honor Union soldiers that died. However, it didn't mention anything about Confederate soldiers being honored, which I thought was odd, because the whole country was supposed to be back together again.
I followed a link on the site and found an article about a Confederate Memorial Day which is to honor the Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. It's apparently celebrated on different dates all over the south, ranging from January to June (May 10th in North Carolina... guess we missed it). I found it odd that there would still be a separate Memorial day for confederate soldiers, even after something like 150 years.
One more website I found was the U.S. White House Commission on Remembrance homepage, which is basically a Memorial Day website. It's got some cool links, like a list of people who have died from the Korean War onwards (probably because its hard to get a list from earlier wars).
Before doing more research on Memorial day, I already knew that it was a holiday to recognize all the soldiers that fight for us. I think Memorial day is a very important holiday and I also think its sort of sad that a lot of us (including myself) didnt know anything about Memorial day before doing this assignment. Memorial day is important, especially for the people who dont have to fight in wars, to honor those who do fight. It would be really sad if we didnt recognize people who lose their lives for our country. This is also why we have school off that day.
From the wikipedia article, it says that Lyndon B Johnson was the first president to make this holiday. Why didnt anyone do this sooner?
Why is it on May 25/26? The date seems to have changed a whole lot over the years (the wikipedia article says it was May 5 once) why did it change?
Like many others, I didn't know much about Memorial Day before researching it. I knew basically that it was to honor fallen troops, and that's it.
However, I found out that it's on the last Monday of May and that it was started after the Civil War to honor Union soldiers, like was said in an earlier post. I wonder why they didn't do something like it earlier...
I had heard it was called decoration day so i wanted to know why.
It was called decoration day because women in the south were “decorating” graves before the end of the Civil War to honor those that had died in battle.
I also wondered about the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. Memorial Day is to honor those who have died in battle or from battle wounds where Veterans Day is to honor all who have served in the military, living and dead, in wartime and in peace. Veterans Day focuses mainly on honoring the living veterans.
I looked into Memorial Day in other countries and found that Australia has a Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 when they honor their war dead.
On Memorial Day in Europe and Asia American flags and flags of the host country are placed on each American veteran’s grave site and the U.S. Ambassador to the host country usually performs some sort of service.
When I was thinking about memorial day I thought: what is the difference between memorial day and veterans day?
This is what I found-
Q. What is the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day?
A. Many people confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. While those who died are also remembered on Veterans Day, Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military - in wartime or peacetime. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to our national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served - not only those who died - have sacrificed and done their duty. A complete history of Veterans Day, and why it is observed on November 11, can be found on the Veterans Day History Web page.
I found this on-
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetday_faq.asp
This is probably one of the most interesting blog posts we have done, because I know memorial day is my favorite weekend because we get off of school, but I think is was my favorite weekend for the wrong reasons. I know that memorial day is about reflecting people they have fought and died for our country...I think. I believe Bush does a ceremony with veterans.
For me I dont really celebrate it, because I dont have any family members that I know of who have fought for the US, because most of my family is from Italy.
I would like to know of anyone in this class perhaps who does celebrate it, and could give a breif idea of what you do. I would like to know more about the holiday itself like when it came about and was there a significant reason behind it.
I did know a little about Memorial day before researching. I knew that it is a holiday that honors the men and woman that have died fighting for our country. I also knew from watching the news this morning that Memorial day was originally for soldiers that were killed in the civil war.
I find it very interesting, that this Holiday were most people have off school and work don't really understand the true meaning of the Holiday.
I learned that Memorial Day was first started by General John Logan. He declared it on May 5, 1868. This wasn’t the first time that people honored the ones who had died in the war though. For many years before this date people had been honoring these people with flowers and decorating their graves. The first time that people officially did this as a holiday was May 20, 1868. I was wondering why they waited a few weeks after General Logan declared it a holiday.
Just because of my nature I decided to have a look and see if the UK had a Memorial Day to honor their fallen troops. While they don't have a specific memorial day, they do have a couple of days that are very similar.
The first day is Veterans Day (created in 2006), which is more modeled after the US Veterans day and instead of commemorating the people who have died in military service, it just commemorates the people who have served in the military. It also isn't a public holiday.
The second day is much closer to a memorial day. It is called Remembrance Sunday in the UK. It is a day of remembrance commemorating (that is a really difficult word to spell) the end of hostilities in the first World War. In addition to remembering this important event, it also honors the soldiers who died serving their country. While yes, it is like memorial day, my understanding is that is only honors those who have died in the First World War.
That's all I have for tonight...
Before researching about Memorial day, I didn't know how to spell the word memorial, though, I did know that this holiday is a day to honor all the men and women who died in our various wars. I also knew that we celebrate this day by not having school.
In researching I found that it only focuses on the perished soldiers from world war 1 and world war 2. One way many people honor these people is by flying the U.S. flag at half-staff from dawn until noon.
When doing the readings, and reasearch i found a link that is a good summary of memorial day.
I was wondering who President Lyndon Johnson is, i found this
link on him. It's a biography
we celebrate memorial day for the obvious reason of recognizing the sacrifices that the troops have made to the country. it really means a lot to the troops, both my grandfathers are veterans and they really take this holiday seriously. while i was in wilmington they had a celebration at the USS North Carolina, a famous WWII battleship named "Showboat" that shot down 14 aircraft in 8 minutes during WWII. Started back in the civil war, Memorial day has recognized our soldiers and will recognize our soldiers during time of war and times of peace.
I have always known what memorial day is. My grandfather was a Gunnery Sergeant, so I have always had a great appreciation of the holiday. After looking at wiki about the holiday, I did not realize that the Indianapolis 500 was always on Memorial day..
I did know that Jack Nicklaus's hardest course design was is used every week of Memorial day to host the "Memorial" tournament. The Memorial tournament is played on Muirfield Village GC. The course was officially dedicated on Memorial Day, May 27, 1974 with a match between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf.
I had known it was a holiday commemorating soldiers who lost their lives in wars but other than that it was just another day i didn't have to go to school. I found it interesting when a website said that there were many cities who said that they started the tradition and that there was a group of women who began decorating graves of soldiers a long time ago.
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