10 Things We Must Remember on Memorial Day
By Nora Eisenberg | Monday, May 31, 2010 | AlterNet.org
“…Memorial Day…got its start at the end of the Civil War. In 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina former African-American slaves exhumed Union soldiers from a mass grave on the site of Charleston’s exclusive racetrack and buried them in individual graves, a ten-day project that ended in a day of celebration….”…BS
http://www.alternet.org/world/147042/10_things_we_must_remember_on_memorial_day/
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