History of Memorial Day:History Channel: 3.19min video
Take a look at the holiday marking the official beginning of summer and America's most solemn occasion.
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Nationwide Gravesite Locator:
National Cemetery Administration
"The database of burial information is updated each day. Search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker."
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Free Access to Military Records at Ancestry.com:
What can you discover in a military record? You’ll find more than just draftees in a 20th-century draft card.
Now through May 31st.
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Family Historians Share Stories of Their Favorite Civil War Ancestors:
FamilySearch
"This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the U.S. Civil War, the event that compelled a transformed nation to honor its dead. To help mark the sesquicentennial of the conflict’s end, we’ve asked genealogists to share stories of Civil War ancestors. We hope you enjoy these narratives of courageous but imperfect men who sacrificed much in the fight for a more perfect nation."
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Fold3 Honor Wall:
Their lives. Our history.
With Memorial Pages you can collect and share everything you know about someone. You need to be a subscriber to Fold 3.
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This Day In History:
1895: Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde "is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist and philosopher is born. He died in 1882.
1787: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States, George Washington presiding.
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