US' "Remembrance Day" (OT)

2 posts · Oct 27 1999 to Oct 27 1999

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:16:32 -0400

Subject: US' "Remembrance Day" (OT)

> (I don't believe November 11 as Remembrance Day is celebrated in the

November 11 is "Veterans Day" in the US. We also have a "Memorial Day" in late
May, which I believe started as "Decoration Day" either during or shortly
after our Civil War (a holiday on which you'd go out and decorate the graves
of soldiers with flowers and such... basically the same concept as Remembrance
Day, I'd gather).

From: Michael T Miserendino <MTMiserendino@l...>

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:09:00 -0500

Subject: Re: US' "Remembrance Day" (OT)

Nov 11 which is Veteran's Day is the US version of Remembance Day.

Mike

Michael Miserendino Senior Software Engineer Lincoln Re mtmiserendino@lnc.com

> owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 10/27 8:18 AM >>>

November 11 is "Veterans Day" in the US. We also have a "Memorial Day" in late
May, which I believe started as "Decoration Day" either during or shortly
after our Civil War (a holiday on which you'd go out and decorate the graves
of soldiers with flowers and such... basically the same concept as Remembrance
Day, I'd gather).

Kent