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MEMORIAL DAY:
Coming Together to Remember by Sheila Turner-Hilliard Photos courtesy of Bob Spano
The Marple Newtown community has a long history of honoring and remembering our servicemen and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. From decorating area gravesites to marching down West Chester Pike, we pause to pay tribute to our deceased military and their families. Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, is a federal holiday observed every year on the last Monday of May. It originally began as a way to honor our soldiers who died in the Civil War, with the first national celebration taking place on May 30, 1868. After World War I, the holiday was expanded to honor all American war fatalities.
Our local veterans
officially adopted that holiday name in 1967. The following year, the passing of the Uniform Holidays Bill declared that Memorial Day would be celebrated on the last Monday in May regardless of the date.
Throughout the United States and in local communities, it’s common to visit cemeteries and decorate the graves of our deceased soldiers with flowers, wreaths and American flags. Other common traditions include raising the United States flag quickly to the top of flagpoles, lowering it slowly to half-mast Decoration Day was recognized as a federal holiday in 1938. to honor our fallen soldiers, then raising it again to full height By the end of World War II, the holiday was more commonly at noon, as a symbol of the commitment of the living to carry Now available a for classic farmhouse design, on our in fight freedom. referred to as Memorial Day, and the federal government
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