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Memorial Day
Guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National
Cemetary
. Credit:
Flickr.
Who Invented Memorial Day?
By Jim Downs (5-28-12)
It's Time for a National World War I Memorial
By Julian Saltman (5-28-12)
At Last, Honor for Albert Wedemeyer, a Great American Soldier
By Thomas Fleming (5-28-12)
How to Forget on Memorial Day
By Tom Engelhardt (5-28-12)
Birthplace of Memorial Day?
(NYT 5-27-12)
This Memorial Day, a Modest Plea for More Honest Military Recruiting Ads
by William Astore (6-1-10)
A Vanishing American Remembrance?
by Ed Hooper (5-31-10)
A Salute to the Generosity of Our Soldiers
by William Lambers (5-30-10)
Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust (5-23-09)
Drew Gilpin Faust Interviewed About the History of Death and Mourning [Podcast]
by Backstoryradio (5-22-09)
Dear President Obama: Please Don't Honor the Arlington Confederate Monument
by Edward Sebesta and James Loewen (5-20-09)
Mystic Chords of Memory ... The purpose of Memorial Day
by Mackubin Thomas Owens (5-26-08)
Memorial Day, the Great War, and America’s Last Surviving World War I Veteran
by Jeffrey S. Reznick (5-20-08)
Caroline Janney says we need to rewrite history of Memorial Day
(5-20-08)
Memorial Day ain't what it used to be
by Peter Collier (5-26-07)
John McCain picks his top 5 books about soldiers
(5-26-07)
Memorial Day: A Day for Remembering -- and Accepting Responsibility
by Todd DePastino (5-20-07)
Bush Invokes the Fallen, Past and Present
(5-30-06)
Memorial proposed to honor all victims of war
(5-23-06)
Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong With the Statues of Monumental Washington
by Paul Richard (5-28-06)
What Do You Do with Dead Soldiers?
by Michael Sledge (1-30-06)
What Are the Origins of Memorial Day?
by HNN Staff (6-2-05)
"From These Honored Dead:" Memorial Day and Veterans Day in American History
by Kenneth Jackson (6-1-05)
Did the WW II Memorial Makers Slight God?
By Ed Pompeian (12-15-04)
What We Really Need to Remember on Memorial Day
by Martin Halpern (5-24-04)
The Truth About the War Memorial to Fallen Journalists
by Timothy J. Reese (10-6-03)
Memorial Day 2003: Through a Vietnam Lens
by Christian G. Appy (5-26-03)
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This is what I think
Submitted by redjarofclay on Tue, 2005-05-31 12:00.
Environmentalism is in a deep hole with respect to its most cherished causes -- it's time for new life, new vision and new victories.
This is what I think
Environmentalism is in a deep hole with respect to its most cherished causes -- it's time for new life, new vision and new victories.