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Originally Posted by JoMar
And we don't celebrate April 9th?
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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.