>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.
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Tamar,

At least here in Georgia, there are two Memorial Days. The one we had yesterday and the Confederate Memorial (which was a couple of weeks ago).

They're both state holidays. I know because my wife is an RN working for the Bartow County Health Department and she got both of them off.< s >