Memorial Day Ceremony

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The Stowe Legion and Auxiliary will hold their annual Memorial Day Service at 10AM on Friday, May 30th at the Akeley Memorial Building. Afterwards, the ceremony will proceed to Riverbank Cemetery.

Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared it should be May 30. It is believed the date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.

Click here to read more about the history of Memorial Day.

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