Memorial Day began a few years after the Civil War, in 1868. An organization of Union veterans established the holiday, then known as Decoration Day, as a time to decorate the graves of fallen ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that serves as a day of reflection and remembrance of those who died ... Wisc., looks at a photo of her son, Marine Lance Corporal Jacob Alexander Meinert, 20, ...

Memorial Day’s place on the last Monday in May was established as part of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, passed by Congress in 1968 according to the National Archives. Veterans Day.