Let's talk about cutting the mic on Memorial Day's history....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 4 June 2021
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| 0:21.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people people it's bow again so today we're gonna talk about a |
| 0:28.6 | history lesson talk a little bit about Memorial Day and a lieutenant colonel getting his mic shut off in the |
| 0:37.8 | middle of a speech because he was going to provide a history lesson about what is widely believed to be the first |
| 0:45.9 | observance of Memorial Day. |
| 0:48.4 | But it's a story that, well, I guess there's some people don't really want it told, so we're going to make sure we tell it today. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, so the first official National Observance of Memorial Day took place in Arlington on May 30th, |
| 1:05.0 | 1868. Prior to this point, there was Decoration Day, is what it was called. |
| 1:12.0 | A whole bunch of different towns had these days where they would go out and decorate the burial sites of fallen troops. |
| 1:22.0 | Then in the late 90s, maybe early 90s, a professor from Yale, |
| 1:27.0 | Blythe, blight, I think, blight. |
| 1:30.0 | He was researching a book on the Civil War and he found this box and it said first |
| 1:36.6 | decoration day. Like okay and he starts looking through it. The thing is it was from 1865 and that's a year before any of |
| 1:47.0 | the other ones. It was in Charleston, a place that didn't claim to have the first one, which was odd. |
| 1:57.0 | So this is what happened. |
| 1:59.5 | There was a racetrack in Charleston during the war. It was turned into a prisoner of war camp. |
| 2:06.0 | Whole bunch of union troops were lost there, 260 of them, and they were all buried together. |
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