Memorial Day Trivia
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Correct answers:
- Decoration Day, the commemorative holiday that eventually was renamed Memorial Day, was officially established in what year?
1868 - When was Memorial Day moved from May 30 to the last Monday in May?
1971 - Which of these Memorials to the fallen was the first to be established on Washington’s National Mall?
Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Which of these major sporting events traditionally takes place every Memorial Day weekend?
Indianapolis 500 - Every year since the early 1920s, paper versions of this flower are widely distributed by veterans groups in the U.S. shortly before Memorial Day.
Poppy - This military memorial just outside of Washington, often referred to as the “Iwo Jima memorial” because it features a sculpture of a scene from the famous World War II battle, salutes this branch of the military services.
Marines - This woman served as a battlefield nurse during the Civil War, earning the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield,” and founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
Clara Barton - On Memorial Day, U.S. flags are to be flown at half-staff until:
Noon - “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity,” said this former soldier who became a U.S. president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Who has been credited as the first to declare that shops are closed for one day to honor the soldiers coming back from the Civil War?
Henry Welles