Memorial Day in Shallotte begins with the Memorial Day Service, Sunday, May 30, beginning at 6:00pm.
The service will include Patriotic Music, Gun Salute, Laying of the Wreath and much more.
The Craig Woolard Band will perform. Rourk Gardens, Main Street, Shallotte.
Memorial Day originated in 1868, when Union General John A. Logan designated a day in which the graves of Civil War soldiers would be decorated.
Known as Decoration Day, the holiday was changed to Memorial Day within twenty years, becoming a holiday dedicated to the memory of all war dead. It became a federal holiday in 1971, and is now observed on the last Monday in May.
There is also a Confederate Memorial Day, which is celebrated on various days in spring in some of the southern states.
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