--part1_68.3f6e402.2662786d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_68.3f6e402.2662786d_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <MOGRUNDY-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (rly-zd03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.227]) by air-zd01.mail.aol.com (v73.12) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 May 2000 08:01:58 -0400 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.30]) by rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (v74.10) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 May 2000 08:01:13 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA18378; Sun, 28 May 2000 05:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 05:00:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Sender: lflesher@fidnet.com Sun May 28 05:00:36 2000 X-Sender: lflesher@mail.fidnet.com Message-Id: <l03130307b556ba5b1a85@[216.229.73.138]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 06:59:43 -0500 Old-To: modekalb-L@rootsweb.com, mogentry-L@rootsweb.com, mogrundy-L@rootsweb.com, mofrankl-l@rootsweb.com, moharris-l@rootsweb.com, molinn-L@rootsweb.com, momercer-L@rootsweb.com, mosulliv-L@rootsweb.com, mowarren-l@rootsweb.com, mowashin-l@rootsweb.com, mostclai-l@rootsweb.com, mohowell-l@rootsweb.com, ;;;post_flesher@bl-3.rootsweb.com;, ;;;momontgo-l@rootsweb.com; From: "Larry G. Flesher" <lflesher@fidnet.com> Subject: [MOGRUNDY-L] Memorial Day Resent-Message-ID: <fht7e.A.8cE.rpQM5@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: MOGRUNDY-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MOGRUNDY-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MOGRUNDY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/705 X-Loop: MOGRUNDY-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: MOGRUNDY-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Mailer: Unknown Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day set aside for remembrance of those who have died in our nations service. Memorial Day was first proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, in his General Order Number 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868; when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. The South, at first, refused to acknowledge, Memorial Day, honoring their dead on separate days until after W.W.I. It is now observed in almost every state of the union on the last Monday of every May. Since the Civil War more than 1.1 million veterans, both women and men, have lost their lives in service to America. Indeed the Civil War alone accounted for more than 600,000 dead. The following is the verbatim order, as written in 1868: General Order No. 11 Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868 I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies nowlie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land. In this observance no form or ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own