The library is closed today in honor of Memorial Day, so we thought it would be interesting to do a little research into the establishment of the holiday. (We are, after all, librarians so we enjoy research.)
Also called Decoration Day, Memorial Day is an opportunity to honor those Americans who gave their lives in service to our country. Services and parades are held in communities throughout the nation and many people place flowers and flags on soldier graves. According to WorldBook Online and other online resources searched from the e-databases link on our homepage, while many communities claim to be the first to observe Memorial Day, Waterloo, New York, was officially given credit for first observing Memorial Day on May 5, 1866. It became a federal holiday in 1971.
The next time you're in the library, you can peruse some Memorial Day memorabilia in our Montana Collection in the form of the Memorial Day address given to the members of the Lincoln post in Maguire's Opera House, Butte, in 1898. We also have the booklet from the dedication of the Montana State Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Rose Memorial Park in November 1988.
So take a few minutes today to remember our fallen soldiers, and we'll see you at the library at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
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