Here a few interesting things you may not have known about the holiday…

Memorial Day was originally called “Decoration Day.”
Approximately 5,000 people gathered to celebrate the first “official” Decoration Day celebration at Arlington National Ceremony in 1868. That’s about the same amount of observers that gather there today.  
About 25 towns and cities, both in the North and the South, have been connected in some way to the origins of Memorial Day. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo, N.Y. the birthplace of the holiday. The town claims that the holiday was the idea of a local druggist in 1865.
Yale Scholar, David W. Blight, claims that the first Memorial Day-style celebration was actually put on by African-Americans, mostly former slaves, at a mass burial site for Union soldiers in Charleston, S.C.
Memorial Day didn’t become an official national holiday until 1971, when a Congressional Act set it at the end of May.
To preserve the purpose of honoring veterans, in 2000 Congress passed the National Moment of Remembrance Act, signed into law by President Clinton. The law calls for a moment of silence from Americans at their local time of 3 p.m. every Memorial Day.

Here's to remembering all of those who have served our Country & THOSE WHO HELPED BUILD IT. Without knowing where We come from how could Wecknow where We're going??  Have an Awesomely Blessed Rosperous & Safe Holiday weekend! ~LuvUMuch Neciaism
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