Memorial Day, 1898

Memorial Day, 1898, plans in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Memorial Day plans, 1898  Sun, May 29, 1898 – Page 34 · The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Brooklyn Public Library

Memorial Day on May 25, 2020

I presume there will be ceremonies with limited attendance at several places this Memorial Day, but I have not found schedules.  For photos of previous Memorial Day parades, please click HERE.

Memorial Day, 2011

Two hours of rain stopped ten minutes before the 2011 Memorial Day parade began its path north on Washington Avenue, Seaford.  Above, the color guard of the Seaford American Legion post leads the parade. I had better luck with photography last year, linked here.
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Decoration Day had its beginning honoring those who lost their lives in the American Civil War of 1861-1865 and those who were veterans of that conflict.  This year, the day after Memorial Day, the newspaper USA Today gave the names of eleven more service personnel who paid with their lives in Afghanistan.  Three of the eleven called Ohio home, and one each from Arizona, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Kansas, Washington, North Carolina, Iowa, California.
   

Memorial Day parade, 2008

On Memorial Day, 2008, also called Decoration Day, a parade brought wreaths to decorate a soldiers' memorial at the Seaford NY Middle School. Ten photos of the parade are shown here on Flickr. Please click on each photo to enlarge it and read the descriptive caption.