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Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. This Monday is Memorial Day.

It commemorates all the Americans who died on behalf of the United States from its beginning to the present.

Started out as Decoration Day.

It was a phenomenon that grew out of the horrific Civil War in which 650,000 to 700,000 Americans North and South died,

and people in that post-war era felt that their graves should be commemorated.

And once people started to decorate the graves or put flowers on them or flags, that custom

spread to the north. And each state then started to commemorate it.

And it was finally federalized as a official holiday, not until 1971.

I can remember when I was a senior in high school, it was announced that from now on the last Monday, coinciding with a three-day

weekend, would be commemorated as memorial. Many people, I found a lot of students confuse it or

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