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Article: EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 2006 - 8: GOV. GRANHOLM ORDERS REGARDING RECOGNITION OF MEMORIAL DAY
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- May 26, 2006
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Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, D-Mich., issued the following executive order:
WHEREAS, Memorial Day was first officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by General John A. Logan, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, in General Order No. 11, and was first observed on May 30, 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery;
WHEREAS, in proclaiming Memorial Day, General Logan wrote, "Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic";
WHEREAS, on Memorial Day we recognize individuals who have died in service to ...
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