EastIdahoNews.com reporter pays tribute to a special World War II veteran for Memorial Day
June 3, 2021
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1:59Now PlayingEastIdahoNews.com reporter pays tribute to a special World War II veteran for Memorial Day
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as posted by the channelIDAHO FALLS – Monday is Memorial Day, an annual day to pay tribute to the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military.
Memorial Day has been an official holiday since 1971, but its roots go back much farther. The earliest recognition of this day, according to History.com, occurred about a year after the ending of the Civil War on May 5, 1866. At that time, it was called Decoration Day.
Two years later, General John Logan, the leader of an organization for Union Civil War veterans, called for a day of remembrance on May 30.
“The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,” Logan said.
General James Garfield gave a speech at Arlington National Cemetery that day as 5,000 people decorated the graves of 20,000 Civil War soldiers.
“We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue,” Garfield said in his speech.
In 1971, Congress officially declared the last Monday in May a national holiday and expanded it to include veterans who died in any American war.
To veterans, one and all, thank you for your service.
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