{"id":12066,"date":"2013-05-23T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12066"},"modified":"2013-05-21T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:11:08","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12066","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday. May 27th, we will observe Memorial Day. A national moment of remembrance<\/a> takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time. The Whitewater Banner<\/a> describes Whitewater’s observance on May 27 (parade starting at 10:30 am from the First Citizens Bank parking lot downtown and ending at the American Legion building).<\/p>\n

You can learn more about it from the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, including Memorial Day history<\/a>. Did you know that it started with local observances decorating graves of the Civil War dead with flowers? Spring, after all, is a good time for flowers to be in bloom.<\/p>\n

Search article databases to find articles such as “Honoring Our Heroes<\/a>” (Saturday Evening Post<\/em>, 2010, vol.282:no.3, pp.32-34) and “A Time to Honor … A Time to Remember”<\/a> (Soldiers<\/em>, 2003, vol.58:no.5, p.24). Chapters of the book, History of Memorial Day<\/em><\/a> (2002), are available to UWW students and staff via the America: History and Life<\/a> database.<\/p>\n

Please ask a librarian<\/a> if you’d appreciate assistance finding additional materials.<\/p>\n

\"FDLP Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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