Comments on: 10 Things to Remember About Memorial Day http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Joe http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-438694 Joe Tue, 31 May 2011 04:36:21 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-438694 If Memorial Day is a "federal" holiday, do we have any actual "national" holidays? If Memorial Day is a “federal” holiday, do we have any actual “national” holidays?

]]> By: Angela http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-438684 Angela Mon, 30 May 2011 19:44:03 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-438684 I live in Texas and while Confederate Hero day isn't a big deal in my area (I had honestly never heard of it until this article) I do appreciate that when they decorate civil war causalties with confederate flags. That was the country they died for so that's the flag they got. I wonder if the NE decorates graves from the Revoluntionary war no matter what side they were on. I live in Texas and while Confederate Hero day isn’t a big deal in my area (I had honestly never heard of it until this article) I do appreciate that when they decorate civil war causalties with confederate flags. That was the country they died for so that’s the flag they got. I wonder if the NE decorates graves from the Revoluntionary war no matter what side they were on.

]]> By: leehinde http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-438678 leehinde Mon, 30 May 2011 18:11:53 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-438678 Gettysburg was fought in 1863, not 1864. Gettysburg was fought in 1863, not 1864.

]]> By: Darlene http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-438673 Darlene Mon, 30 May 2011 17:18:39 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-438673 Forgetting Why We Remember is a beautiful piece from NY Times about the beginning of Memorial Day. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/opinion/30blight.html Forgetting Why We Remember is a beautiful piece from NY Times about the beginning of Memorial Day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/opinion/30blight.html

]]> By: AK TB http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-438669 AK TB Mon, 30 May 2011 16:16:45 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-438669 CB, not IAW Louisiana Revised Statute 1, Section 55, (A)(1) CB, not IAW Louisiana Revised Statute 1, Section 55, (A)(1)

]]> By: Bert http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-438665 Bert Mon, 30 May 2011 15:16:38 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-438665 Just a small note: "In Flanders Fields" was written by Dr. John McCrae, not McCrea. Just a small note: “In Flanders Fields” was written by Dr. John McCrae, not McCrea.

]]> By: gus http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-381817 gus Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:11:18 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-381817 @ Cajun Bob, we, the North, did not fire first! @ Cajun Bob, we, the North, did not fire first!

]]> By: adriana foreman http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-381771 adriana foreman Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:53:24 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-381771 the flag represents the united states and we should be as a united familiy because everybody is different in all ways the flag represents the united states and we should be as a united familiy

because everybody is different in all ways

]]> By: okiemelissa http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-381768 okiemelissa Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:33:55 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-381768 The Confederate Memorial Day was one of the strangest things about moving here. I get the desire to remember and honor heritage (which is a word that's used with the confederate flag a LOT out here), but it also seems counter productive to healing the split that, honestly, is still fairly present down here. The Confederate Memorial Day was one of the strangest things about moving here. I get the desire to remember and honor heritage (which is a word that’s used with the confederate flag a LOT out here), but it also seems counter productive to healing the split that, honestly, is still fairly present down here.

]]> By: cajun bob http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844/comment-page-1#comment-381765 cajun bob Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:27:19 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25844#comment-381765 living in louisiana, we still don't get memorial day off from work school. There is no way we are going to clebrate a holiday inspired by the war of northern aggression living in louisiana, we still don’t get memorial day off from work school.

There is no way we are going to clebrate a holiday inspired by the war of northern aggression

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