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Wasn't Memorial Day a holiday before 1971? I remember parades and all. Maybe 1971 is when they changed it to a Monday.
I thought it was around then that they enacted the Monday holiday thing?
It was always May 30 before 1971. After that it moved to last Monday in May.
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I was in the Army in '70 and we "celebrated" it.
‘70 I was going into the 11th grade. Any day off from school I’d remember. Pretty sure we were off.
I remember having the 30th off in school .... back to the 50s. Used to be "Decoration Day". On that day, there'd be a parade with a ceremony at the local WWI memorial. Then head to the pool where they threw a wreath into the pool in remembrance of those lost at sea.
It was a day off and I didn’t really care why.
That's too bad.
I’m getting a lot of picture freeze on Fios.
Me too.