Decoration Day, Memorial Day, & Fallen Heroes – The Imaginative Conservative
By Peter Lawler
Memorial Day originates with the Civil War as “Decoration Day.”
Southern women took up the task of decorating the graves of what turns to have been hundreds and hundreds of thousands of their fallen heroes.
Theirs was highly civilized work—a duty maybe more Greek and Roman than Christian…
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