Today we celebrate Memorial Day.
1. Today is Memorial Day. Wikipedia says the first Memorial Day celebrations were in 1865 in Charleston, SC, by former slaves, who disinterred Union Civil War soldiers buried in a mass grave, buried them individually and decorated their graves. Several other cities lay claim to the day's origins. The Southern states did not participate in Decoration Day until after World War I when it was commonly called Memorial Day and extended to honor Americans who died in all wars, according to History.com. In 1967, the name was officially changed to Memorial Day. In 1971, Washington's Birthday, Veterans Day and Memorial Day were moved from specific dates to a Monday to make three-day weekends. Opponents say the change diminishes the holidays. Until …
An old bus remembers younger times in history, when European POWs lived in the United States.
The bus carrying a museum memorializing World War II prisoners held in the United States is an old schoolbus painted military green and rusted across the back. An aging big-screen television is held in place with what looks to be salvage wood wedging it into a corner and a bungee cord to keep it from toppling. The stories the screen tells are of boys. Boys brought to this country as prisoners. Boys who earned art supplies, formed musical bands, staged plays and - considering their forced separation from all that they loved - lived well. But the only ones left who remember the German-prisoner boys in Iowa from that time are their sons and daughters, and their Midwest hosts' sons and daughters, now old themselves. Those who visited the …
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Anabell Jones
2:21 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
That is so kewl, nice to see people turning classic vintage things into something educational. Always have to do the best for our vets http://www.airsplat.com/government-airsoft.htm lol That rhymes. Anyways, nice to see people taking their time to do things for people who took YEARS out of their time for us. more ›