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Definition of Memorial Day

Memorial Day
Memorial Day Me*mo"ri*al Day A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War (1861-65) in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the States. In the Southern States, the Confederate Memorial Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]

Meaning of Memorial Day from wikipedia

- Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel...
- Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a holiday observed in several...
- The National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing M****acre is a national memorial day observed in China on 13 December annually in honor of the...
- Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also known as 228 Memorial Day, is a public holiday in Taiwan for honoring and mourning the victims and families...
- Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD, 27 January) is a national commemoration day in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of the Jews and others who...
- A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million...
- In the Memorial Day m****acre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident...
- Memorial Day is thriller novel by Vince Flynn, and the seventh to feature Mitch Rapp, an American CIA agent that works for the counter-terrorism unit "Orion...
- Constitution Memorial Day (憲法記念日, Kenpō Kinenbi) is a public holiday in ****an. It takes place on May 3 in celebration of the enactment of the 1947 Constitution...
- Holodomor Memorial Day or Holodomor Remembrance Day (Ukrainian: День пам'яті жертв голодоморів, romanized: Den pamiati zhertv holodomoriv, lit. 'Day of memory...