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Podcast: The Alan Sanders Show
Episode: Memorial Day 2023 and remembering why we have this solemn holiday
Description: Today is Memorial Day 2023. Most have the day off and for many, it marks the unofficial start of summer. However, this holiday, which affords so many a 3-day weekend, is not a happy one. Today’s holiday is one of the most somber ones we recognize every year on the last Monday of May. As I usual do on this occasion, I spend the first half of the show talking about the evolution of this day, from the close of the Civil War in 1865, until becoming a nationally recognized holiday in 1971, today is a day we remember th...