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Memorial Day   /məmˈɔriəl deɪ/   Listen
Memorial Day

noun
1.
Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war.  Synonym: Decoration Day.






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"Memorial Day" Quotes from Famous Books



... always a big time in Dalton on Memorial Day, but this year it was to be made more memorable than ever before. The Grand Army of the Republic men were to come in from Rochester, the firemen were to turn out, and the school children were to have a place in the ranks, with Dorothy Dale as ...
— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose

... blasphemy and of pride; and Ritschl, the great theologian, declares that the Brethren put themselves on a pedestal above all other Churches. For that judgment Moravian writers have largely been to blame. It has been asserted again and again that on that famous "Memorial Day" the Brethren made a "special covenant" with Christ. For that legend Bishop Spangenberg was partly responsible. As that godly writer, some thirty years later, was writing the story of these transactions, he allowed his pious imagination to cast ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton



Words linked to "Memorial Day" :   legal holiday, may, public holiday, national holiday



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