senior historian at Arlington National Cemetery. "Memorial Day is a solemn day, a day of mourning and remembrance," Finkelstein said. "We trace it to the Civil War, a conflict that tore our nation ...

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...

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The first memorial day wasn't called Memorial Day Decoration Day, May 30, 1868, was held at Arlington National Cemetery, which was just one of 74 national cemeteries established after the Civil War.