Memorial Day-- Honoring those in the U.S. Military who gave their lives

Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died in the performance of their military duties while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 who gave a loving tribute to our Military who died in the Civil War:

"...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."