Memorial Day 2025: crowns placed at the Memorial in East Lansing
The members of the service place crowns at the monument of the medal of honor and the monument of veterans during a ceremony of the Memorial Day on May 21, 2025, in East Lansing.
The Americans are ready to mark the Memorial Day, the fifth of the 12 federal holidays on the calendar.
The Holiday honors those who died following the battle as it was used in the American armed forces. He also served part of the country’s “civil religion”, according to the scientist Robert N. Bellah.
“The observance of the Memorial Day, in particular in the cities and the small towns of America, is a major event for the whole community involving a rediscovers of the martyr’s deaths, the spirit of the sacrifice and the American vision,” Bella wrote in his 1967 “Civil Religion in America”.
The Memorial Day is also familiarly considered the start of summer and is a major travel weekend.
Here’s what you need to know about the Memorial Day.
When is the Memorial Day 2025?
The Memorial Day will be observed on Monday, May 26, 2025.
The holiday was made of federal holidays observed on the last Monday in May by the uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968.
When was the first Memorial Day?
The first commemorative day occurred on May 30, 1868.
The holidays were initially dedicated to soldiers of the fallen Union of the Civil War by the Grande Army of the Republic, an organization of veterans of the Union led by the general of division John A. Logan – according to the American department of veterans.
The opening of the order that created the holidays established it “in order to rush with flowers or decorate the tombs of deceased comrades to defend their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies are now in almost all cities, village and hamlet in the country.”
The previous accounts indicate that people decorating the graves of the Union for the Memorial Day in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, in October 1864 and a tribute to the “Martyrs of the race” cemetery on May 1, 1865, according to the VA. The latter occurred when Black Freedmen and White “Northern Abolitionist Allies” honored the 257 Union soldiers buried in the Charleston cemetery, in South Carolina.
How is Memorial Day different from veterans’ day?
Although the Memorial Day and the Veterans Day honor the two army members, they are differentiated by whom they honor.
The Memorial Day honors those who died in uniform following the battle while the day of veterans honors all those who served in the country’s armed forces, with these last holidays particularly focused on living veterans – according to the VA.
The Memorial Day is the second of the three holidays in honor of those linked to the military, after the day of the armed forces.
