On an enduring fallacy about the origins of Memorial Day, and how it’s fed the Confederate Lost Cause myth.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/3o0g0Tm

“I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I like it”—I kept coming back to Gramling’s words. That comment was revealing. Many places in the South claim to be the originator of Memorial Day, and the story is at least as much a matter of interpretation as of fact.

↩︎ The Atlantic

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