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the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on May 30, 1868. It was originally called Decoration Day.
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
See HEROES, Page A6
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