freelance writer
Freelance writer and author of Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
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Michael Sledge
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FROM Michael Sledge
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Origins of Memorial Day; Honoring Our Fallen Soldiers Memorial Day began after the Civil War, which killed 600,000 Americans, North and South. But the first day of remembrance wasn't really about them. It was started by southern women, mourning what they called the Lost Cause: the Confederacy.
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