Memorial Day: Honoring Service and Sacrifice

Sending Memorial Day postcards was a tradition from about 1900 to 1920. Two post cards are shown here. The one at right quotes a well-known poem, “The Bivouac of the Dead”, which also . can be found on iron plaques in many national cemeteries. Picture at right: Flags decorate veterans’ graves on Memorial Day at Cypress Hills National ................
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