Waterloo is hosting a 5 day celebration of Memorial Day 2000. Please visit the Schedule of Events to learn more. Other communites throughout the United States also lay claim Memorial Day. While Waterloo, NY has been sanctioned by the U.S. Government as being the birthplace, other communites have interesting and touching stories concerning their first observance. A nice tribute to ancestors and great links for veterans and military interests.
Every day is Memorial Day Visit the Pennsylvania Memorial Day site.
Visit the Memorial Day Tombstone Inscription Project site for more information about Memorial Day and tombstone preservation. Some of the information for this article was obtained from Centennial Celebration, souvenir edition of the Geneva Times, printed May 24, 1966. You are the 81879th visitor since May 22, 1998. Memorial Day originally commemorated soldiers killed in the Civil War, but the holiday was later extended to include all U.S. war dead. The custom of honoring the graves of the war dead, one of the chief activities of Memorial Day, began before the end of the Civil War.