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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Memorial Day Special: The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
Description: For today’s holiday we wanted to replay an episode from 2019 about the history behind Memorial Day. Officially, the community that started Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York - but Waterloo is definitely not the only place with a Memorial Day origin story.
How Waterloo, NY, became the birthplace of Memorial Day (New York Upstate)
Birthplace of Memorial Day? That Depends Where You’re From (New York Times)
Memorial Day History (VA.gov)