Happy Memorial Day 2016 History and Origin USA
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Happy Memorial Day 2016 History and Origin USA
Memorial Day will be celebrated on 30th of May 2016 across all the United States of America as it’s the day when we remember those who had sacrificed their life for our freedom. The day when we pray together for their souls as they had even lost their life for our happiness to let us enjoy the breeze of freedom. So it’s our duty to celebrate this day together stand still together with hands in our hands. We salute to these freedom fighters who some way or the other are the reason behind our development happiness joy in our life.
The source of origination of this unique and special tradition was unclear for all the people as to find where was the first place where this tradition of decorating graves and doing prayers starts.
Now as the people of USA were celebrating the decoration day every year things went wrong for this country during the World War 1 as the country lost the lives of many more brave comrades who fight for the freedom of the country. Before this war the decoration day was meant for the decoration of the graves of only those who were lost in the Civil War.
The “National Moment of Remembrance” resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans “To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to ‘Taps.”
The Civil War claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history, requiring the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries. By the late 1860s Americans in various towns and cities had begun holding springtime tributes to these countless fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers.
On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there. Many Northern states held similar commemorative events and reprised the tradition in subsequent years; by 1890 each one had made Decoration Day an official state holiday. Many Southern states, on the other hand, continued to honor their dead on separate days until after World War I.
Cities and towns across the United States host Memorial Day parades each year, often incorporating military personnel and members of veterans’ organizations. Some of the largest parades take place in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. Americans also observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries and memorials. On a less somber note, many people throw parties and barbecues on the holiday, perhaps because it unofficially marks the beginning of summer.