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Article: Returning Meaning to Memorial Day.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 22, 2008
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Byline: Bret Schulte
Memorial Day is Monday. Some believe it shouldn't be. While millions prepare to go to the beach or take a family picnic or just spend a day at the mall, veterans groups and others fret that the meaning of Memorial Day is lost amid the hubbub of a long weekend and the unofficial marker of summer. "Memorial Day is to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice," says Joe Davis, a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "Its meaning goes way beyond the three-day weekend." He and others fear that Memorial Day has become nothing but a vacation weekend. But it didn't use to be.
Memorial Day began in 1865 in the mind of Henry Welles, a ...
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