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What are your thoughts on the history of Memorial

Day and what impact do you think it has made on you and our society"?

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"Decoration Day" was the original name for Memorial Day. According to the United States Veterans Affairs Department, Decoration Day was founded in 1869 by the president of a Union veterans' group, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, as a means for the nation to remember the graves of those who perished in the Civil War with flowers.

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