As Memorial Day Weekend begins tomorrow please take a short moment and remember those who have fallen. They are the reason for the holiday. Enjoy your weekend and BBQs.
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As Memorial Day Weekend begins tomorrow please take a short moment and remember those who have fallen. They are the reason for the holiday. Enjoy your weekend and BBQs.
We will be finishing putting in the garden that includes 24 tomato plants, 18 eggplant plants, 18 pepper plants, and a lot of seeds. Then around Labor Day we'll be dealing with all the produce!
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fucking A right. Love the summer. nothing better than cold beer on the deck after a long week, steaks on the grill, friends and/or family around enjoying the company and forgetting your stresses and troubles for a bit. ahh great stuff. Happy unofficial start of the summer people. Grab some cold ones. Cheers:D
as G. Love would say
"i like cold beverage yea, i like cold beverage yea...stick it in the fridge stick in the fridge stick in the fridge, go girl work the cold one, go girl work the cold one"
edit: makes me think, lets get some G. Love at Bud Fest before PJ.
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Great start to summer today. Tons of fun today with BBQ, beer, and cornhole.
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In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general
took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it
across the entire country.
The holiday was Memorial Day, an annual commemoration was born in the
former Confederate States in 1866 and adopted by the United States in
1868. It is a holiday in which the nation honors its military dead.
Yet when General Logan established the holiday, he acknowledged its
genesis among the Union’s former enemies, saying, “It was not too late
for the Union men of the nation to follow the example of the people of the South.”
I’m a scholar who has written – with co-author Daniel Bellware – a history of Memorial Day.
Cities and towns across America have for more than a century claimed to
be the holiday’s birthplace, but we have sifted through the myths and
half-truths and uncovered the authentic story of how this holiday came
into being.
Generous acts bore fruit
During 1866, the first year of this annual observance in the South, a
feature of the holiday emerged that made awareness, admiration and
eventually imitation of it spread quickly to the North.
During the inaugural Memorial Day observances which were conceived in Columbus, Georgia,
many Southern participants – especially women – decorated graves of
Confederate soldiers as well as, unexpectedly, those of their former
enemies who fought for the Union.
Civil War Union Gen. John A. Logan. Library of Congress Glass negatives
Shortly after those first Memorial Day observances all across the
South, newspaper coverage in the North was highly favorable to the
ex-Confederates.
“The action of the ladies on this occasion, in burying whatever
animosities or ill-feeling may have been engendered in the late war
towards those who fought against them, is worthy of all praise and
commendation,” wrote one paper.
On May 9, 1866, the Cleveland Daily Leader lauded the Southern women during their first Memorial Day.
“The act was as beautiful as it was unselfish, and will be appreciated in the North.”
The New York Commercial Advertiser,
recognizing the magnanimous deeds of the women of Columbus, Georgia,
echoed the sentiment. “Let this incident, touching and beautiful as it
is, impart to our Washington authorities a lesson in conciliation.”
Power of a poem
To be sure, this sentiment was not unanimous. There were many in both parts of the U.S. who had no interest in conciliation.
“It struck me that the South was holding out a friendly
hand, and that it was our duty, not only as conquerors, but as men and
their fellow citizens of the nation, to grasp it.”
Finch’s poem seemed to extend a full pardon to the South: “They
banish our anger forever when they laurel the graves of our dead” was
one of the lines.
Not just poems: Sheet music written to commemorate Memorial Day in 1870. Library of Congress
Almost immediately, the poem circulated across America in books,
magazines and newspapers. By the end of the 19th century, school
children everywhere were required to memorize Finch’s poem. The ubiquitous publication of Finch’s rhyme
meant that by the end of 1867, the southern Memorial Day holiday was a
familiar phenomenon throughout the entire, and recently reunited,
country.
General Logan was aware of the forgiving sentiments of people like Finch. When Logan’s order establishing Memorial Day was published in various newspapers in May 1868, Finch’s poem was sometimes appended to the order.
‘The blue and the grey’
It was not long before Northerners decided that they would not only
adopt the Southern custom of Memorial Day, but also the Southern custom
of “burying the hatchet.” A group of Union veterans explained their
intentions in a letter to the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph on May 28, 1869:
“Wishing to bury forever the harsh feelings engendered by
the war, Post 19 has decided not to pass by the graves of the
Confederates sleeping in our lines, but divide each year between the
blue and the grey the first floral offerings of a common country. We
have no powerless foes. Post 19 thinks of the Southern dead only as
brave men.”
Other reports of reciprocal magnanimity circulated in the North, including the gesture of a 10-year-old who made a wreath of flowers
and sent it to the overseer of the holiday, Colonel Leaming, in
Lafayette, Indiana, with the following note attached, published in The
New Hampshire Patriot on July 15, 1868:
“Will you please put this wreath upon some rebel
soldier’s grave? My dear papa is buried at Andersonville, (Georgia) and
perhaps some little girl will be kind enough to put a few flowers upon
his grave.”
President Abraham Lincoln’s wish that there be “malice toward none”
and “charity for all” was visible in the magnanimous actions of
participants on both sides, who extended an olive branch during the
Memorial Day observances in those first three years.
Although not known by many today, the early evolution of the Memorial
Day holiday was a manifestation of Lincoln’s hope for reconciliation
between North and South.
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After the weekend, of course.
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16 Phillie II
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I am a half day away from a 3 day weekend, followed by 3 days of work, then another 3 day weekend!
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I need to get to our lake ASAP. It's going to be hot and the hammock is calling my name.
New bedroom set in...check
New shower downstairs done...check
LET's HIT UP THE FUCKING BEACH
Pool sunday
maybe pool again monday definately BBQ steak for dinner
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Pool tonight..pool tomorrow, drinks at night...wine tasting Sunday...epic bike ride Monday.
IT'S SUMMERTIME!
it's gonna be a great summer.
fucking A right. Love the summer. nothing better than cold beer on the deck after a long week, steaks on the grill, friends and/or family around enjoying the company and forgetting your stresses and troubles for a bit. ahh great stuff. Happy unofficial start of the summer people. Grab some cold ones. Cheers:D
as G. Love would say
"i like cold beverage yea, i like cold beverage yea...stick it in the fridge stick in the fridge stick in the fridge, go girl work the cold one, go girl work the cold one"
edit: makes me think, lets get some G. Love at Bud Fest before PJ.
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2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
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2017: RRHoF 4/7 2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4 2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18
2022: MSG 9/11 2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
GOT THE HEINY LIGHT AND THE SAMMIES READY
TIME TO PACK THE CA CA COOLER
agreed
even though it was a mild winter for us...the summer time has come
HAVE FUN
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tomorrrow...bbq by the bro's pool
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The forgotten history of Memorial Day
By: Guest Author - May 27, 2024 5:00 am
Preparing to decorate graves, May 1899. Photo from the Library of Congress
By Richard Gardiner, Columbus State University
In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country.
The holiday was Memorial Day, an annual commemoration was born in the former Confederate States in 1866 and adopted by the United States in 1868. It is a holiday in which the nation honors its military dead.
Gen. John A. Logan, who headed the largest Union veterans’ fraternity at that time, the Grand Army of the Republic, is usually credited as being the originator of the holiday.
Yet when General Logan established the holiday, he acknowledged its genesis among the Union’s former enemies, saying, “It was not too late for the Union men of the nation to follow the example of the people of the South.”
I’m a scholar who has written – with co-author Daniel Bellware – a history of Memorial Day. Cities and towns across America have for more than a century claimed to be the holiday’s birthplace, but we have sifted through the myths and half-truths and uncovered the authentic story of how this holiday came into being.
Generous acts bore fruit
During 1866, the first year of this annual observance in the South, a feature of the holiday emerged that made awareness, admiration and eventually imitation of it spread quickly to the North.
During the inaugural Memorial Day observances which were conceived in Columbus, Georgia, many Southern participants – especially women – decorated graves of Confederate soldiers as well as, unexpectedly, those of their former enemies who fought for the Union.
Shortly after those first Memorial Day observances all across the South, newspaper coverage in the North was highly favorable to the ex-Confederates.
“The action of the ladies on this occasion, in burying whatever animosities or ill-feeling may have been engendered in the late war towards those who fought against them, is worthy of all praise and commendation,” wrote one paper.
On May 9, 1866, the Cleveland Daily Leader lauded the Southern women during their first Memorial Day.
“The act was as beautiful as it was unselfish, and will be appreciated in the North.”
The New York Commercial Advertiser, recognizing the magnanimous deeds of the women of Columbus, Georgia, echoed the sentiment. “Let this incident, touching and beautiful as it is, impart to our Washington authorities a lesson in conciliation.”
Power of a poem
To be sure, this sentiment was not unanimous. There were many in both parts of the U.S. who had no interest in conciliation.
But as a result of one of these news reports, Francis Miles Finch, a Northern judge, academic and poet, wrote a poem titled “The Blue and the Gray.” Finch’s poem quickly became part of the American literary canon. He explained what inspired him to write it:
Finch’s poem seemed to extend a full pardon to the South: “They banish our anger forever when they laurel the graves of our dead” was one of the lines.
Almost immediately, the poem circulated across America in books, magazines and newspapers. By the end of the 19th century, school children everywhere were required to memorize Finch’s poem. The ubiquitous publication of Finch’s rhyme meant that by the end of 1867, the southern Memorial Day holiday was a familiar phenomenon throughout the entire, and recently reunited, country.
General Logan was aware of the forgiving sentiments of people like Finch. When Logan’s order establishing Memorial Day was published in various newspapers in May 1868, Finch’s poem was sometimes appended to the order.
‘The blue and the grey’
It was not long before Northerners decided that they would not only adopt the Southern custom of Memorial Day, but also the Southern custom of “burying the hatchet.” A group of Union veterans explained their intentions in a letter to the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph on May 28, 1869:
Other reports of reciprocal magnanimity circulated in the North, including the gesture of a 10-year-old who made a wreath of flowers and sent it to the overseer of the holiday, Colonel Leaming, in Lafayette, Indiana, with the following note attached, published in The New Hampshire Patriot on July 15, 1868:
President Abraham Lincoln’s wish that there be “malice toward none” and “charity for all” was visible in the magnanimous actions of participants on both sides, who extended an olive branch during the Memorial Day observances in those first three years.
Although not known by many today, the early evolution of the Memorial Day holiday was a manifestation of Lincoln’s hope for reconciliation between North and South.
Richard Gardiner, Associate Professor of History Education, Columbus State University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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