>Yeah, sorry, I should have realized why you were asking.
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>Actually, I just learned something, that the holiday here goes back to the 1860's, and has historical roots in the Civil War.

FWIW, Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day, because people went out to the cemetary and decorated (with flowers and ribbons, presumably) the graves of the war dead. As I understand it, in much of the South, Memorial Day is still controversial. Della Martin told me about places she knew where Memorial Day was the last day of school.

Tamar