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Good morning all---from not so sunny Denver CO.
According to the USA Today Carrie Underwood is our new American Idol. I am not sure how much this affects my life or yours, but I thought I would include it since I could not remember who else I should be wishing a mazel tov to. Just kidding!!!! A happy birthday to Sharon who celebrated yesterday. In each of her 26 years Sharon continues to remain sensitive about her age. I will honor that request and just simply say she is another year older. And, a mazel tov to Jeanne Broderson for being officially sworn into the NY State bar last week. This weekend, Memorial Day marks the official beginning of summer, linen, white shoes and I guess a bunch of other things. And, of course readers of this message are probably wondering how it all started: Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
I just realized my PC is out of power. Sorry.
Later
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According to the USA Today Carrie Underwood is our new American Idol. I am not sure how much this affects my life or yours, but I thought I would include it since I could not remember who else I should be wishing a mazel tov to. Just kidding!!!! A happy birthday to Sharon who celebrated yesterday. In each of her 26 years Sharon continues to remain sensitive about her age. I will honor that request and just simply say she is another year older. And, a mazel tov to Jeanne Broderson for being officially sworn into the NY State bar last week. This weekend, Memorial Day marks the official beginning of summer, linen, white shoes and I guess a bunch of other things. And, of course readers of this message are probably wondering how it all started: Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
I just realized my PC is out of power. Sorry.
Later
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