[Salvation]

Sources and related links:

• Boalsburg, Pa., Birthplace of Memorial Day
  [www.rootsweb.com/~pacentre/memory.htm]
• DC City Pages: History of Memorial Day
  [www.cnn.com/US/9805/25/memorial.day.wrap/]
• General Logan Biography
  [www.jal.cc.il.us/johnlogan.html]
• General Logan's General Order 11
  [www.usmemorialday.org/order11.html]
• Help Restore the Traditional Day of Observance of Memorial Day
  [www.usmemorialday.org/act.html]
• Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 from Duke University)
  [memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html]

• How to Observe Memorial Day
  [www.usmemorialday.org/observe.htm]
• Luminaria Program
  [www.nps.gov/frsp/luminari.htm]
• Memorial Day Events - Dept of Veterans Affairs
  "The Office of Public Affairs provides this page of items that may be of special interest to veterans and customers."
  [www1.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/index.asp]
• The Origins of Memorial Day
  [www1.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/history.asp#hist]
• Roy, Nuhn. Portfolio: To Honor The Memory of the Departed. American History Illustrated 1982 17[3]: 20-25.
  
• S 189 and H.R. 1474, bills to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day.
  [www.usmemorialday.org/act.html]
• "S. Con. Res. 100", resolution for a National Moment of Remembrance.
  [www.usmemorialday.org/resolution.html]
• Statement on Signing the National Moment of Remembrance Act
  [www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/President/dec2800.txt]

• Taps Information
  [www.usmemorialday.org/taps.html]
• Today in History: May 30
  American Memory project, The Library of Congress
  [memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may30.html]
• VFW's "Buddy" Poppy program
• Waterloo, Official Birthplace of Memorial Day
  [www.rootsweb.com/~nyseneca/memorial.htm]

[Salvation]

Does anyone else besides me remember your folks calling Memorial Day, Decoration day?

[Cannon6]

On April 25,1866, the ladies of Columbus, MS decorated the graves of the Confederates. When they realized there was no one to decorate graves of the North, they returned for more flowers. A renown Poet, Francis Miles Finch, rode out to the cemetery to see what was going on. He wrote the poem The Blue and the Gray. Check it out. Very moving.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

May our fallen Confederate soldiers rest in peace.

[OldPossum]

Thanks for the posting. Very moving information.

You might want to cc the White House, so that Obama can get up to speed. You could condense it into a description of what the holiday celebrates since he doesn’t appear to know that.

[meadsjn]

Flag Etiquette, Folding the Flag, and WHY THE AMERICAN FLAG IS FOLDED 13 TIMES (courtesy of American Legion Post 143, Post Falls, Idaho)

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Rest in Peace Heroes.. Thank you for our Freedom!

[Rockitz]

I’m proud to claim the good general (John Alexander Logan) as an ancestor (an uncle actually).

[matt04]

Excellent post.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years."

Perhaps I live in a cloistered part of the country, but here in Southwestern Pa we have numerous Memorial Day ceremonies over this weekend. I participated in two parades myself and I know of many more. Some small and some large. Memorial Day is well observed where I live.