Memorial Day: Remembering the Fallen

MEMORIAL DAY: REMEMBERING THE FALLEN MEMORIAL DAY WAS FIRST CELEBRATED ON MAY 30, 1868. IT WAS OBSERVED BY PLACING FLOWERS ON THE GRAVES OF UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS DURING THE FIRST NATIONAL CELEBRATION. GEN. JAMES GARFIELD MADE A SPEECH AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, AFTER WHICH AROUND 5,000 PARTICIPANTS HELPED TO DECORATE THE GRAVES OF THE MORE THAN 20,000 UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO WERE BURIED THERE. GENERAL JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN ORDERED THE MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY TO BE OBSERVED BY DECORATING THE WAR DEAD. ON MEMORIAL DAY, THE FLAG SHOULD BE AT HALF-STAFF UNTIL NOON ONLY, THEN RAISED TO THE TOP OF FLOWERS AND FLAGS ARE THE TWO MOST POPULAR ITEMS PEOPLE USE TO REMEMBER SOLDIERS. THE STAFF. NEW YORK WAS THE 1ST STATE TO OFFICIALLY WATERLOO, N.Y., BEGAN HOLDING AN ANNUAL RECOGNIZE MEMORIAL DAY IN 1873. COMMUNITY MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE ON MAY S. MOST NORTHERN STATES HAD 1866. ALTHOUGH MANY TOWNS CLAIMED THE FOLLOWED SUIT BY THE 1890s. TITLE, IT WAS WATERLOO THAT WON CONGRESSIONAL RECOGNITION AS THE "BIRTHPLACE OF MEMORIAL DAY." 2. MEMORIAL DAY WAS FIRST CALLED "DECORATION DAY" RED POPPIES ARE RECOGNIZED AS THE MEMORIAL DAY BECAUSE OF THE PRACTICE OF DECORATING SOLOIER'S GRAVES FLOWER, WITH FLOWERS. FEDERAL LAW DECLARED "MEMORIAL DAY" THE OFFICIAL NAME IN 1967. IN 2004 MEMORIAL DAY WAS DECLARED WASHINGTON D.C. A FEDERAL HOLIDAY IN HELD ITS FIRST MEMORIAL DAY 1971 PARADE IN OVER 60 YEARS. "TAPS" IS OFTEN PLAYED AT CEREMONIES ON MEMORIAL DAY. IT OAIGINATED IN 1862 WHEN UNION GEN. DAN BUTTERFIELD "GREW TIRED" OF THE LIGHTS OUT CALL SOUNDED AT THE END OF EACH DAY. THE SOUTH REFUSED TO HONOR THE DEAD ON MEMORIAL DAY UNTIL AFTER WORLD WAR I WHEN THE MEANING OF MEMORIAL DAY CHANGED FROM HONORING CIVIL WAR DEAD TO HONORING AMERICANS WHO DIED FIGHTING IN ANY WAR. MEMORIAL DAY ACTIVITIES 81% KANSAS CITY MEMPHIS OF US HOUSEHOLDS OWN A GRILL BOTH MEMPHIS,TN AND KANSAS,MO CITY CLAIM THAT THEY ARE THE BARBEQUE CAPITAL AND THEY USE IT ON AVERAGE OF 5 TIMES PER MONTH. OF THE UNITED STATES. PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN U.S. ARE THE HEAVIEST BARBECUERS IN THE NATION. THE NEXT MOST FREQUENT BARBECUES ARE IN THE NORTH CENTRAL REGION OF THE U.S., FOLLOWED BY THE SOUTH AND THEN THE WESTERN U.S. POPULARITY CONTEST POPULAR HOLIDAYS POPULAR FLAVORS POPULAR UTENSILS FOR BARBECUING OF BARBECUE FOR BARBECUING 71% 1. 77% JULY 4TH 57% HICKORY LONG-HANDLED TONGS 2. 64% MEMORIAL DAY MESQUITE FORKS 5% 3. 59% LABOR DAY HONEY SPATULAS 4. 63% SPICY-HOT GRILL CLEANING BRUSHES IN HOMEMADE BARBEQUE SAUCES, GARLIC IS ALMOST ALWAYS FOUND IN THE RECIPE, AS IS BROWN SUGAR. POPULAR FOODS COMMON SIDE DISH FOR BARBECUING FOR GRILLING 85% 41% BURGERS CORN 80% 41% STEAK POTATOES 79% 32% HOT DOGS OTHER VEGETABLES 73% CHICKEN SOURCES I http://www.purplettail.com/partytrail/featuted_memorlal_day/what-is-memorial-day-history-facts ULTIMATE Couporis http://www.hpba.org/consumers/barbecue/fun-facts-about-barbecue http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/280336/grilling facts_and_trivia_14 things.html com http:l/www.yumsugat.com/Geilling-Fun-Facts-Memorial-Day-274358