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  • Memorial Day's Super-Cool Origins

    Kate Dailey | May 23, 2009 03:21 PM
    A discussion on the beach about the purpose of Memorial Day lead me to this bit of information, via Wikipedia : ...the first memorial day {sic} was observed in 1865 by liberated slaves at the historic Washington Race Course (today the location of Hampton... More