Observing Memorial Day

Memorial Day was born out of our nation’s most fractured and pivotal moment: the Civil War.Battered and worn after four years of internal strife, America nonetheless emerged intact in 1865, the dream of the Union preserved. The price of preserving our nation, our ideals, and our freedoms was approximately 620,000 American lives — nearly a quarter of a million more souls than our nati...

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