Memorial Day 2024 origin of holiday

Memorial Day – 2024... origin of holiday Strong and brave men and women gave their level best crème de la crème strongest and bravest leaving grieving significant others with emotional agony within treasured chest o'er the redoubt the enemy did crest, where lovely bones of forebears for everest battling hostility over well fought over ass strew turf among warring factions finessed in manicured cemeteries (sacred burial grounds) ye guessed dead bodies strewn across killing fields forsook their lives eternal peace they rest honored and revered succumbed mortal electric kool-aid acid test though I question if sacrificed life worth a spit of land to wrest. Now pardon ma faux pas indicative of generic geek a reasonable rhyme rhyme, from dis po' pa try'n to be sleek original poem crafted years gone by necessitated minor tweak where sense and sensibility weak. Officially called Decoration Day proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan first observed on 30 May 1868 Waterloo N.Y. officially declared the birthplace by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966. Though eight score minus one year (minor emendation regarding time frame since original date I crafted poem) Appomattox, a psychological balm helped stitch frayed nation to calm until hell on earth killed, obliterated, and rained napalm, (a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: coprecipitated aluminium salts of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid) served as silent psalm since bombardment at Fort Sumter qualm including intervening wars such as raging battles on the Somme and the war between Northern and Southern Vietnam. National holiday most adept at uniting Civil War fallen soldiers when fiercely armed as brother in arms crept against opposing forces, which took by surprise “enemies” or found inept ill prepared troops with surprise mortal blow which ambushed attackers leapt mowing down valiant soldiers, thus becoming slain grooms who eternally slept sorrowful lamentable hymns from widowed brides tears wept. Cease fire that day terminating internecine flay o’er mounds of earth whence bones o boys donned blue or gray a day of remembrance for those who died in our nation's service lay celebrated this last Monday every May one must know tis not about division boot about reconciliation and sacrifice brave heroes did pay, the price of their lives for granted freedoms enjoyed as american lee-way. Forsooth, now we cherish too, the Poppy red that grows on fields where valor led, it seems to signal to the skies that blood of heroes never dies acknowledged courtesy bunting (strings of colorful, monochrome, beige triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes) visibly draped and/or hung honoring the dead.