Memorial Day
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Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. It is observed on the last Monday of May.
Arlington National Cemetery graves decorated with flags during Memorial Day weekend
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
1867 Decoration Day in Richmond, Virginia's Hollywood Cemetery
General John A. Logan, who in 1868 issued a proclamation calling for a national "Decoration Day"
In Flanders Fields
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"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after
Inscription of the complete poem in a bronze book at the John McCrae memorial at his birthplace in Guelph, Ontario
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was a soldier, physician and poet.
Aspects of the poem were used in propaganda, such as this Canadian war bonds poster
The Vimy Memorial and part of "In Flanders Fields" on a Second World War recruitment poster