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Memorial Day means American Flags will be flying high. In Ocean Grove many homes fly the Flag all year round and during the holiday, you can see bunting on porch rails, banners and multiple flags in all sizes in all places.
Memorial Day means small town parades, big city parades and decorated Veterans marching alongside fresh-faced Boy Scouts, vintage cars and high school bands.
A Memorial Day Parade
Memorial Day means family gatherings, picnics and barbeques.
Family Guy
Memorial Day means going to the beach, or the pool or the lake.
Cannon Ball
All American Beach
Memorial Day means waiting in lines for ICE CREAM!
Nagle's Ice Cream
Memorial Day means the running of the Indianapolis 500
The Indy 500
Memorial Day means…. well once upon a time, a long time ago, Memorial Day was a Federally designated holiday celebrated each year on May 30th. The first Memorial Day was May 30, 1868. General John Logan, the National Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic proclaimed this holiday to honor the men and women of our country who died while in the service of United States. Memorial Day was formerly known as Decoration Day and was first called Memorial Day in 1882 and became more commonly known as such after World War ll and was officially declared a national holiday in 1967. In June of 1968 Congress passed the Uniform Holidays Act which changed the dates of three holiday and made them into 3 day weekends. This law moved Memorial Day from May 30th to the last Monday in May. The VFW and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War have opposed this change and in a 2002 in a Memorial Day Address stated the following: Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public’s nonchalant observance of Memorial Day. Since 1987, Hawaii‘s Senator Daniel Inoue, a World War II veteran, has repeatedly introduced measures to return Memorial Day to its traditional date.
How will you be celebrating Memorial Day this year?
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