Memorial Day quiz: How much do you know about the holiday?

South Florida Sun Sentinel (Quizland.com) ^ | May 31, 2010

[ConservativeStatement]

Memorial Day is celebrated by honoring our troops and spending the three-day weekend in the sun. But do you know how the holiday originated? Test your knowledge with this quiz from Quizland.com.

[Revolting cat!]

Memorial Day? Uhm, I forgot!

[Genoa]

There are multiple claimants for the honors, but Waterloo, New York, is the true birthplace, trust us.

[Genoa]

Visit waterloony.com.

[LaybackLenny]

Guess this doesn’t really fit in with this particular article, but does anyone else have the same pet peeve as I do about people wishing you “HAPPY Memorial Day?” Always seemed a bit inappropriate to me. But then, I guess that’s where the culture, and particularly government schools, have gotten us.

[ConservativeStatement]

I missed numbers 4 and 10. Guessed correctly at Waterloo.

[FlJoePa]

I thought Boalsburg, PA had a legitimate claim to that honor.

[Genoa]

Nope. Ask anybody from Waterloo.

[FlJoePa]

Heh...ask anyone from Boalsburg!

Boalsburg Memorial Day Festivities

[Genoa]

I hate to tell you, but they're delusional. ;)

[BuffaloJack]

Waterloo NY gets the official credit for Memorial Day (formerly called Decoration Day)(originally on May 5, 1866) but only because General John Logan observed Southern Ladies decorating the graves of both Confederate and Union dead a year before in May of 1865.

[mware]

Not all government school my FRiend.

[ConservativeStatement]

I’m listening to Colonel David Hunt hosting a radio show and he took a phone call from someone whose father died in 1980 after serving in WWII and Korea. The call concluded with the Colonel saying “Happy Memorial Day.” To answer your question, I think it depends on how (and probably from whom) it is said.

[proud American in Canada]

bttt to take the quiz later

[Cannon6]

On April 25, 1866, the women of Columbus, MS went to Friendship Cemetery to decorate the graves on fallen Confederate soldiers. When they realized that no one would be there to decorate the graves of the Union soldiers, the women returned to Columbus for more flowers and then decorated the Union soldiers graves.
Francis Miles Finch, a well known poet happened to be in Columbus and hear about what was happening. He went to the cemetery to see for himself and was so impressed that he wrote the poem “The Blue and the Gray”. If you can read through this poem without tearing up you are good. The inland river he refers to is the Tombigbee.

[Cannon6]

On April 25, 1866, the women of Columbus, MS went to Friendship Cemetery to decorate the graves on fallen Confederate soldiers. When they realized that no one would be there to decorate the graves of the Union soldiers, the women returned to Columbus for more flowers and then decorated the Union soldiers graves.
Francis Miles Finch, a well known poet happened to be in Columbus and hear about what was happening. He went to the cemetery to see for himself and was so impressed that he wrote the poem “The Blue and the Gray”. If you can read through this poem without tearing up you are good. The inland river he refers to is the Tombigbee.

[Cannon6]

hear=heard

[Biggirl]

Came out with 60% and it said I knew more then most would.