print email comment close In Remembrance ... Memorial Day URL: http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/holidays/memday/ Description: Material about the Memorial Day holiday, including origins (covering when people decorated the graves of Civil War dead, 1971 when Memorial Day was set as the last Monday in May, and related events); "The Last Salute," a publication of "accounts of funerals conducted for civil and military officials, active and retired, and for the unknown servicemen of three wars between 1921 and 1969"; and images. From the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Publisher: U.S. Army Center of Military History Extra Keywords decoration day LII Database Information: Record 28266 created by Maria Brandt on 04/22/2009 Last modification on 05/20/2009 Published: 05/20/2009   LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28266