Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers.
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People are also reading… But he tries not to judge others who spend the holiday differently:"How can I expect them to understand the depth of what I feel when they haven't experienced anything like that?"WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PURPOSE OF MEMORIAL DAY?It's a day of reflection and remembrance of those who died while serving in the U.S. military, according to the Congressional Research Service.
But David Blight, a Yale history professor, points to May 1, 1865, when as many as 10,000 people, many of them Black, held a parade, heard speeches and dedicated the graves of Union dead in Charleston, South Carolina. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio | All Of Our Podcasts As early as 1869, The New York Times wrote that the holiday could become"sacrilegious" and no longer"sacred" if it focuses more on pomp, dinners and oratory.
Meanwhile, how the day was spent — at least by the nation's elected officials — could draw scrutiny for years after the Civil War. In the 1880s, then-President Grover Cleveland was said to have gone fishing — and"people were appalled," said Matthew Dennis, an emeritus history professor at the University of Oregon.
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