[Grand Old Partisan]

Michael Zak is the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of the GOP from the civil rights perspective.

[alloysteel]

Decoration Day.

Yeah, I remember when it was called that.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Do you have a working link to the article? Thanks.

[Piquaboy]

What day was it that the Damolrats created?

[Mark in the Old South]

I can not remember the name of the Union General but Logan sounds right. This General I am thinking of, (together with his wife) was credited with promoting the Memorial Day commemoration. But he did not originate the idea. They had seen it in the South among the local women. Some say the idea originated in Vicksburg MS, others claim it was the ladies of Winchester Virginia, still others claim the girls attending the boarding school of Miss Dickerson in Petersburg Virginia were the first. I suspect it was a spontaneous reaction across the South to honor the war dead. These ladies would lay flowers and pray at the graves of the Glorious Dead, both Union and Confederate.

Memorial Day will always be for me a Southern Holiday.