Remember
Memorial Day, was established to remember those Americans who paid the ultimate price in war. In 1868, as Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans group, MGen Logan penned General Order No 11, which called for the decoration of veteran graves with flowers. This order, in part, declared, “Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the …
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