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Remember "The Chosen Ones", Remember Their Families

May 26, 2008
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The first Memorial Day - then called Decorations Day - was held in 1866, when a group of women visited a cemetery to decorate the graves of Confederate soldiers who had fallen in battle at Shiloh. Nearby were the graves of Union soldiers, neglected because they were the enemy. Disturbed at the... [read full story]                    

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Remember 'The Chosen Ones', Remember Their Families

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Remember 'The Chosen Ones', Remember Their Families

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