Memorial Day

Last updated April 31, 2005

Memorial Day and Labor Day are bookend holidays, marking the beginning and end of the summer holidays in the United States. These three-day weekends traditionally are times for celebration and family outings. Celebrated in most states on the last Monday in May, Memorial Day is a time to remember the U.S. men and woman who lost their lives serving their country. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was established in 1868 to commemorate the dead from the Civil War. Over the years it came to serve as a day to remember all U.S. men and women killed or missing in action in all wars.

Join the Davis Virtual Market in exploring some sites on the web that help us remember what Memorial Day is all about.

Memorial Day Web Sites

War
Peace
Memorials
Other Sites of Interest
Literature, Poetry, Letters
What They had to say on War and Peace

War

American Revolution: American Revolutionary War - Time Line of the American Revolution.; American Revolutionary War Archive - American Revolution Archive for Kids.; American Revolutionary - Links and Resources for Kids; American Revolutionary - Links and Resources for the rest of us
Civil War: Civil War information, documents, and archive.; Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page; American Civil War Homepage; American Civil War Web Site
Spanish American War: Spanish American War Memorial Web Site; Spanish American War Web Site -- the Ultimate Web Guide; Spanish American War Veteran Ancestry
World War I: Document Archives of WWI; World War One Web Site -- Ultimate Web Guide
World War II: History-WWII - Year by year chronology of World War II; Video History WWII - at History.Com with video covering the war; Military History-WWII - Military History-WWII - Links to WWII Web Sites by Richard Jensen; World War II Photo Links -- searchthrough 1,000 WW2 pictures.; World War II Links -- the Ultimate Link Page - cannot find this page. Please e-mail new location...; World War II Links -- A very good replacement for the Ultimate WWII link page; History WWII -- The history of WWII with emphasis on US Armed forces Forces; World War II - 60 Years Ago Archives - articles on WWII; USA WWII Memorial Web Site -- with Registry of WWII veterans
Korean War: Korean War Veterans Memorial Homepage; Korean War Project Homepage; Examining The Korean War Homepage -- links to Oral Histories and resouces; United State Army Korean War 50th Aniversary; The Korean-War Homepage
Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page -- also a Registry; Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park Page; Vietnam Veterans Home Page
Persian Gulf War: Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages; Operation Desert Storm Home Page

We are looking for links for Iraq and Afghanistan veteran resources. E-mail G Richard Yamagata at yamagata@virtual-markets.net to submit links or articles to be considered for posting.

Peace

Peace and Conflict Resolution - Excellent peace resources
Conflict Resolution Homepage - List of Linked Resources
Peace and Conflict Links - From the Peace and Conflict Studies Dept at U of Colorado at Boulder
PeaceWeb - A Quaker homepage on peace.
PeaceNet
Peace Corps Home Page
United States Institute of Peace
Peace Tree - Links to net resources devoted to diversity, justice, and peace.
Programs for Peace and Conflict Resolution
The Institute of Public Policy Program on Peace Operations
Women Resources for Waging Peace
Peace and Disarmament

Memorials, Casualty Files

Beruit Memorial -- On-line -- "They came in peace (update 8/25/99"
Operation Mahalo -- A USS Utah Memorial Ceremony on December 7
USS Missouri Memorial
War Stories of the Viet Nam War
173rd Airborne Brigade -- a site with moving midi music
Korean Conflict and Viet Nam War Casualty Files
Korean War Veterans Memorial News -- Name of note is H Barker...
Pearl Harbor Casualties List
Remembrance: Casualties of the Vietnam War
Vietnam Casualty Files
Vietnam Veterans Memorials
Library of Congress POW / MIA Database
The Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Located at the ceremonial entrance to Arlington National Cemetery. The memorial is the only national memorial to honor ALL women who have served both in and with the military since the American Revolution. Please visit their website at womensmemorial.org. The memorial just unveiled a new exhibit to Native American Women veterans and honors Spec. Lori Piestawa, killed in Iraq. There is also an exhibit of photos from the new book, A Day in the Life of The US Armed Services. Later this summer the exhibit of the Pentagon quilts will return and run through the end of September, 2003.

Other Sites of Interest

MEMORIAL DAY
MEMORIAL DAY PRAYER
HOW TO OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY
A MEMORIAL DAY SALUTE
EVERY DAY IS MEMORIAL DAY
The Flag of the United States of America - History of American Flag from the ultimate American Flag web Resources
The Flag of the United States of America - Excellent history of American Flag and other American Flag links.
US Army Web Site
US Army Web Site - Visit a US Army Museum on Memorial Day
United States Navy - Decomissioned Ships web list
American Government and War
Free Memorial Day e-cards page

Literature, Poetry and Letters

Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars, 1894
The War Prayer-A Play -Adapted from a short story by Mark Twain.
Whitman, Walt. . Leaves of Grass.
With My Family on Memorial Day
Letters Home from a Soldier in the U. S. Civil War
A Directory for Letters Home from Soldiers in the U. S. Civil War -- scroll down the page for this and other resources
Gulf War Diary of Robert Werman

What They had to say on War and Peace

Saint Augustine
Menachem Begin
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A. E. Housman
Bible, Isaiah
John Lennon
Martin Luther
Robert Lynd
John Milton
Pablo Neruda
William Shakespeare
UNESCO Constitution
Frederick Moore Vinson
Woodrow Wilson

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