Memorial Day: Remember & Honour
Memorial Day, a US federal holiday, is the United States first and foremost day to honour and mourn its deceased service men and women. Originally known as ‘Decoration Day’, as during and following the Civil War, communities in the North and South, black and white, decorated soldier’s graves with floral honours on spring-time decoration days. In 1868, Grand Army of the Republic Commander-in-Chief John A. Logan, formally recognised this practice by issuing a “Memorial Day…