Memorial Day. The Hub Radio Show for Monday May 29, 2017. View the completely solemn playlist for 5-29-17 (CLICK HERE)
Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, Elf Power, The Mountain Goats, Palehound
Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an
organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) —
established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the
graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared
that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30. It is believed that
date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.
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