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To: LeoWindhorse

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Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, has been called “Where Flowers Healed A Nation”? On April 25, 1866 the ladies of Columbus, Mississippi decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers’ graves with garlands and bouquets of beautiful flowers. As a direct result of this kind gesture, Americans celebrate what has come to be called MEMORIAL DAY each year.


7 posted on 04/02/2015 4:35:58 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Celebrated in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania in 1864.


20 posted on 04/02/2015 5:00:14 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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