Memorial Day commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the holiday was first observed in three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868.
The head of an organization of Union established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers.
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