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Old 09-03-2024, 03:19 PM
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And we don't celebrate April 9th?
Had to google that.

Either National Winston Churchill Day or a civil war reference.

I assume the latter.

But Memorial Day was started to commemorate the civil war dead.

The April 25–26, 1866, memorial day events honoring Confederate and Union dead in the South was a step toward reconciliation that reverberated nationwide, though it was predictably uncomfortable for some northerners.