THE MANY STORIES OF MEMORIAL DAY
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hello Friends ~ Memorial Day is a very special holiday in our household. I first recorded this podcast in 2022 and it remains one of my favorites so I decided to repost it. I never knew these stories about the founding of Memorial Day until I started working to uncover this history for you (thank you for that opportunity). I find myself still moved to tears about how so many different people decided to do something very similar. It serves as a reminder of our common humanity and what matters most - our love for each other, our love of country and our deep gratitude for those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
We'll be back on Tuesday with our regular podcasts (barring any stories that need our attention as we support you and your families with quick, concise, nonpartisan news).
Sending love to you and your loved ones ~ and buy yourself some flowers! (listen and you'll understand).
Love, Jenna
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to this week's debrief. I hope you're having a great day wherever you are. I am so |
| 0:08.1 | glad that you are here today. It's actually a special edition of the Smarter News debrief. Every week, |
| 0:15.7 | we do a debrief, which is our weekly deep breath when it comes to the news. Smarter news is about |
| 0:20.3 | quick and concise |
| 0:20.8 | on partisan information seamlessly throughout your very busy week in this very busy news cycle. But once a |
| 0:26.4 | week we take a deep breath and we look at some of the stories that are really rising to the |
| 0:29.9 | surface that demand a little bit more attention. And I love this time of the week because it allows |
| 0:34.5 | me to talk to you directly about some of the nuances of these news |
| 0:38.1 | stories that really are the stories of our lives. And that's why news is important. Good |
| 0:42.8 | journalism is important because we're actually telling our history as we're living it. |
| 0:47.2 | But today we're going to do something very special. It's a special edition of the debrief |
| 0:51.4 | because I'm actually going to be focusing on one event, one historic |
| 0:55.9 | events. A historic event you're going to hear about in this new cycle. And so I figured it was |
| 1:00.8 | worth the time just to pause and focus on the origin of Memorial Day. I'm recording this a couple |
| 1:07.1 | days before Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a significant holiday in the United States. |
| 1:12.1 | It's also a really special holiday in our household as well for a few personal reasons, which I'll |
| 1:17.6 | share a little bit later on. But Memorial Day is that moment in America where we also pause, |
| 1:23.7 | and we also remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation and for the |
| 1:29.1 | freedoms that we enjoy. But how did we arrive here? How did we arrive at Memorial Day? One of the |
| 1:35.6 | great gifts of Smarter News. And I really want to say thank you for this. You are an inspiration on |
| 1:41.7 | so many different levels. But one of the greatest gifts you give |
| 1:44.9 | me is the inspiration to pause and ask, why are we doing this? What is really the backstory to all |
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