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Decorating for Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, May 25, 2026, will be the 160th anniversary of the first official celebration of the holiday by a jurisdiction, when it was celebrated in Waterloo, New York, on May 19, 1866. Even before the official commemoration, Northerners and Southerners were remembering their Civil War dead by erecting statues and decorating graves with flowers and flags. After 2.5% of the population died in the Civil War (proportionate to 7 million peop…
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The Library of Congress broke the news on Friday, May 22, 2026.
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