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09/11/2017

Bingo & Texas Hold'em Tues, Free Pool Thurs, Ladies Night Fri and
Karaoke Sat Night. Open to Public

08/04/2017

Bingo & Texas Hold'em Tues, Free Pool Thurs, Ladies Night Fri and Karaoke Sat Night. Open to Public

07/01/2017

We cannot say thank you enough, but we'd like to start by giving all veterans and active military personnel a FREE Calabash Chicken Plate on July 4th. We hope you'll leave full - with our gratitude 🇺🇸

06/07/2017

06/07/2017

Day or night, rain or shine, 365 days a year, Tomb Guard sentinels guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Come view the changing of the guard every 30 minutes and honor the fallen.

06/07/2017

326. Photograph. Briefing. “File Number: 46802 October 16, 1944 Navy Captain briefs Seabees on setting up artificial harbor-Captain A. D.

06/04/2017

Like our page to help wounded veterans reclaim their lives.

06/02/2017

05/31/2017

Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Many Americans observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or memorials, holding family gatherings and participating in parades. Unofficially, it marks the beginning of the summer season.

Decoration Day

On May 5, 1868, General John A. Logan, leader of an organization for Northern Civil War veterans, called for a nationwide day of remembrance later that month. “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,” he proclaimed.

The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle.

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. Southern states, on the other hand, continued to honor their dead on separate days until after World War I.

History of Memorial Day

Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during World War I the United States found itself embroiled in another major conflict, and the holiday evolved to commemorate American military personnel who died in all wars.

02/03/2017

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