Monday 5/30/22
Memorial Day - the holiday offers a chance for the solemn remembrance of those who served our country and are no longer here on Earth with us but who are forever in our hearts. It was first known as Decoration Day.
Loomis Day - His idea was wireless communication
My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Day
National Creativity Day
National Mint Julep Day
Water a Flower Day
World MS Day
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Some Memorial Day Facts -
Congress established an exact moment of remembrance on Memorial Day.
The National Moment of Remembrance Act, which was adopted in December 2000, encourages every citizen to pause each Memorial Day at 3 p.m. local time to remember the brave men and women who died in service to our nation.
The Ironton-Lawrence Memorial Day Parade in Ironton, Ohio, is recognized as the oldest continuously running Memorial Day parade in the nation, beginning all the way back in 1868.
However, the oldest (and first) Memorial Day parade in the country was held a year earlier in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
"Taps," the bugle call typically performed at military funerals as well as the annual Memorial Day wreath ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, was actually adapted from a separate Civil War bugle call known as "Scott Tattoo," which was used to signal lights out.
Yet according to the "Arlington National Cemetery Legacy of Honor" by Jim Harris, as well as "Stories Behind the Hymns that Inspire America" by Ace Collins, the new melody later became the preferred accompaniment at military funerals after Captain John Tidball of the Union Army ordered his men to quietly play "Taps" at a fellow soldier's funeral.
They do so out of fear that a traditional three-volley rifle salute would alert nearby Confederate troops to their location.
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Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Americans eat over 7 billion hot dogs.
National BBQ day was May 16th..but July 4th is the champion holiday for a BBQ. Memorial Day is tied with Labor Day as second, and Father's Day is 4th!
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - There are five presidents who never had children: George Washington, James K. Polk, Warren Harding, James Buchanan, and Andrew Jackson.
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