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A very special holiday is celebrated on the last Monday in May Memorial Day It is the day we honor all the brave men and women in our armed forces who died while fighting to protect our country our freedoms and us How did this important American holiday come into being
How Memorial Day Began From 1861 to 1865 the American Civil War was fought The northern states did not want to continue allowing slavery but eleven southern states did The southern states withdrew from the United States and formed a new country the Confederate States of America President Abraham Lincoln refused to recognize this new country So the North’s Union soldiers and the South’s Confederate soldiers went to war
When the war ended the United States was united again And slavery would soon be ended But over half a million soldiers had died fighting on the two sides of the war far more soldiers than have died in any other American war The whole country grieved
