Want to show your patriotism this Memorial Day?
According to USFlag.org, the flag should be displayed at half staff until noon and at full staff from noon to sunset on Memorial Day.
Memorial Day Facts and Trivia
- Memorial Day was created in response to the unprecedented loss during the Civil War.
- President Nixon declared Memorial Day a holiday in 1971.
- Waterloo, N.Y., is considered the birthplace of Memorial Day as proclaimed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966.
- There are four soldiers buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers: two from WWI, and once from both the Korean and Vietnam wars.
- The 24-note bugle call “Taps” originated in 1862.
- Wearing red poppies originated in 1915 as inspired by a poem by Moina Michael called, “In Flanders Fields."
- Southern states including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Louisiana and the Carolinas still celebrate Confederate observances of the dead.
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