Communication - Personal Development - Business » Celebrate! Archives – Decontaminate Toxic People http://www.decontaminatetoxicpeople.com Marsha Petrie Sue's Blog on How To Improve Attitude, Motivation, Leadership, Profit and Productivity Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:13:56 +0000 en hourly 1 2006-2007 marsha@marshapetriesue.com (Communication - Personal Development - Business) marsha@marshapetriesue.com (Communication - Personal Development - Business) http://www.decontaminatetoxicpeople.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Communication - Personal Development - Business http://www.decontaminatetoxicpeople.com 144 144 Marsha Petrie Sue's Blog on How To Improve Attitude, Motivation, Leadership, Profit and Productivity Communication - Personal Development - Business Communication - Personal Development - Business marsha@marshapetriesue.com no no Celebrate Memorial Day: Because Freedom is not Free http://www.decontaminatetoxicpeople.com/behavior/communications/celebrate-memorial-day-freedom-free/ http://www.decontaminatetoxicpeople.com/behavior/communications/celebrate-memorial-day-freedom-free/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 00:38:37 +0000 Marsha http://www.decontaminatetoxicpeople.com/?p=619 Please join me in sharing the reason we celebrate this special day in May. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11 , and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873.

By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 – 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

Read more and please share this wonderful history with your children, friends and family. Freedom is never free and I honor everyone who protects my country.

God bless America. Marsha

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