STORY: A ceremony devoted to the memory of Liberian leaders and government officials murdered decades ago marked what ...

Liberian President Joseph Boakai has launched what his office describes as an unprecedented reconciliation campaign, ...

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Tuesday, July 1, led a solemn national ceremony commemorating the tragic events of April 1980 and honoring the memory of former President William R. Tolbert Jr. and ...

As Liberia solemnly laid to rest former President Samuel Kanyon Doe and former First Lady Nancy B. Doe in a state reburial and burial ceremony more than three decades after his deaths, former Grand ...

P.S. The only palindromic Decoration Day occurred on May 30, 1935 —written as 5/30/35.

It was a long war.” The Decoration Day program will be held in the shadow of Iowa’s first Civil War monument. It was built to honor 15 soldiers from the area who died in the war.

Memorial Day began as a tradition of honoring America’s fallen soldiers after the Civil War by placing fresh flowers upon their graves. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was recognized as a ...

Originally started as Decoration Day, and it was a grassroots effort, mainly in the South. As more and more young men got returned home, they would decorate the graves with flowers.

Memorial Day began as Decoration Day, a holiday to honor soldiers who died in the Civil War. It didn’t become the holiday we know today until the 20th century.

Memorial Day 2025 falls on Monday, May 26. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971.

Rev. Dr. William B. Leach of Chicago in 1896 condemned the way his countrymen “so forget ourselves as to make Decoration Day a day for hilarious, madcap fun, without thought of the boys, old now ...