Memorial Day in America: Fun or Remembrance?

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Memorial Day is a holiday dedicated to America’s war dead, but which is spent in very different ways in different cities, towns, neighborhoods and by different individuals. Also, the dispute over the design of the Eisenhower Memorial. (Rebroadcast of today's To the Point.)

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Banner image: Memorial Day commemoration, 2008. Photo by David Yu/flickr

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