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Memorial & Veterans Day

Examine the history and celebration of these two often misunderstood Federal holidays

Library of Congress Photographs

Daisies gathered for Decoration Day, May 30, 1899. Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899. (Johnston [Frances Benjamin] Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress).

 

Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. Decorating a soldier’s grave. Esther Bubley, May 1943. (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress).

 

Ashland, Aroostook County, Maine. Girl scouts marching…during Memorial Day Ceremonies. John Collier Jr., 1943. (FSA/OWI Black-And-White Negatives, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress).

 

Black Troops at the Memorial Day Parade, Washington D.C. Royden Dizon, May 1942. (FSA/OWI Color Photographs, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress).

 

A small Vietnam War Memorial, Memorial Day, Springfield Massachusetts. Carol Highsmith, 2019. (Highsmith Archive, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress).

New York City Photographs

Decoration Day, 1875 at Broadway and Bond Street. Photo from New York Public Library.

 

Children in Harlem celebrate the return of the famous 369th Regiment following World War I, photo via National Archives

Photos accessed from untappedcities.com on May 22, 2024

1895 Memorial Day Parade. Brooklyn, N.Y. (photo courtesy of Brooklyn Memorial Day Committee)

 

Memorial Day festivities are held on Fifth Avenue at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park, New York City on May 30, 1917. (photo courtesy of 2015 Flickr Commons project and contributor Names Bain News Service)

 

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reviewing the 1942 Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C. with Sir John Dill, General George Marshall, and Admiral Ernest J. King. on May 30, 1942. (Photo courtesy of the FDR Presidential Library)

 

Accessed from: https://www.voanews.com/a/memorial-day-honors-us-war-dead--dates-back-to-end-of-american-civil-war/3873065.html on May 22, 2024