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SUMMARY:Memorial Day
DESCRIPTION:Church Office is closed / Observed on Monday, May 29, 2023\nThe church office will re-open Tuesday, May 30, 2023\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nMemorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Memorial Day 2019 occurs on Monday, May 27.\nOriginally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Many Americans observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or memorials, holding family gatherings and participating in parades. Unofficially, it marks the beginning of the summer season.\nEarly Observances of Memorial Day\nThe Civil War ( http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history ), which ended in the spring of 1865, claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history and required the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries.\nBy the late 1860s, Americans in various towns and cities had begun holding springtime tributes to these countless fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers.\nDid you know? Each year on Memorial Day a national moment of remembrance takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time.\nIt is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings. And some records show that one of the earliest Memorial Day commemoration was organized ( https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston ) by a group of freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865. Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo, New York ( https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-york ), the official birthplace of Memorial Day ( http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/memorial-day-history/pictures/memorial-day/birthplace-of-memorial-day ).\n
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