Unofficially, it marks the beginning of the summer season. As a result, Memorial Day has been celebrated on the fourth Monday of May since 1971. Johnson signed into law the Uniform Holiday Bill, which packaged several federal holidays into the tail end of three-day weekends with the hope of stimulating travel and commerce. In the years that followed, the holiday became more widely known as Memorial Day. By the conclusion of World War I, the focus shifted from honoring those killed on Civil War battlefields to all men and women who had died while fighting for the United States. New York became the first state to designate Decoration Day a legal holiday in 1873, and by 1890, every other former Union state had followed suit. In 1868, the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans, established May 30 as Decoration Day, encouraging Americans to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Department of Veterans Affairs, with one such event reportedly held as far back as October 1864 in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. It is unclear when and where this act of commemoration first took place: around 25 communities have been tied to the origin of Memorial Day, according to the U.S. “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.Memorial Day began as "Decoration Day," a designated time to decorate the gravestones of many of the roughly 620,000 people killed in the Civil War.
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill. "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." - Michel de Montaigne. "Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Courage is found in unlikely places." - J.R.R. "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." - Bob Dylan. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” - James Frey, "A Million Little Pieces" Kennedy, "Prayer for Peace," Memorial Day 1962 "Americans may not only pay tribute to our honored dead but also unite in prayer for success in our search for a just and lasting peace." - John F. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” - Nathan Hale. “Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not in this we stand or fall.” - John Milton, “Paradise Lost”. "For let the gods so speed me, as I love the name of honor more than I fear death.' - Julius Cesar. For love is immortality." - Emily Dickinson "Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed by the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” - Benjamin Disraeli. It is something to own.” - Michelle Obama “Your story is what you have, what you will always have. “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” - Colonel David Hackworth. "America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." – Harry S. "Think about the past and consider the sacrifices men and women in the military have made for us." – Gary G. “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”― Antonio Porchia. "The brave may fall, but never yield.” – Author unknown. Just one step at a time." – Eleanor Roosevelt 
We do not have to become heroes overnight. "Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.
"The legacy of brave men and women who have fought and died for their country is the freedom we enjoy as Americans." – Lucian Adams. "Without a sign his sword the brave man draws and asks no omen but his country's cause." - Homer. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” - Ranata Suzuki “I got to fight on till I leave here, and I hope I leave some footprints.” - Mattie Jones. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”― Thomas Campbell. “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” - W.E.B. "Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country." - George Washington. “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” - James Allen. "The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree." - Thomas Campbell. “We must dare to be great and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage." - Theodore Roosevelt. Whether you plan to spend the day in quiet reflection or gathered with friends and family, share one of these inspiring messages to honor and remember our military heroes. wars and is often referred to as "Decoration Day" because of the longstanding tradition of visiting gravesites of loved ones to leave flags, flowers and other mementos. Eventually, it came to represent all Americans lost in U.S.
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