Abraham Lincoln at the American Civil War Memorial 5/24/13
On May 24th, 2013 President Abraham Lincoln portrayed by Fritz Klein, spoke at the American Civil War memorial in Waterloo, New York. As keynote speaker at the annual Illumination Ceremony, he was asked to make some comments about the battles at Gettysburg and his part in the dedication of the cemetery. His comments conclude with his famous Gettysburg Address, recited as only the President could.
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In Texas, a Museum for a Larger-Than-Life Hero, Sam Houston
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Sam Houston was larger than life. The city of Huntsville, Texas, has a 20-meter-tall statue of him. It is said to be the largest statue of any American hero. Nearby, the Sam Houston Memorial Museum holds many of his belongings. Patrick Nolan is the director.
PATRICK NOLAN: He is really the only man in our history who was president of an independent country, also governor of two different states, the only man to have that distinction, Tennessee and Texas, United States senator from Texas, commanding general in a very successful war.
Sam Houston suffered personal and political defeats early in life. In 1832, he joined American settlers in what was then the Mexican territory of Texas.
PATRICK NOLAN: The idea of remaking yourself, of re...kind of...constituting your career, if you will, was there, and Texas was an opportunity to do that.
Sam Houston led Texas rebels to victory against a larger Mexican army at the battle of San Jacinto in 1836. Texas won independence from Mexico before joining the United States. Houston became governor of the new state, but was forced to retire to his farm in Huntsville in 1861. Nolan says Houston refused to sign an oath to support rebellious southern states against the north.
PATRICK NOLAN: He would not take that oath to support the Confederacy. He would resign -- he didn't resign, he would be dismissed, he would be fired before he would do it.
The Civil War was still being fought when Sam Houston died at his home in 1863. James Haley has studied his life. He says Sam Houston and his wife owned slaves, but paid them for extra work. He says Houston angered many southerners because he opposed efforts to expand slavery to other states.
JAMES HALEY: Every year, he had a speaking tour up the Ohio Valley, through Pennsylvania, New York and into New England. That was really the center of his political strength, because he was unpopular in the South because of his stance against slavery.
Sam Houston predicted the Civil War years before the fighting started.
JAMES HALEY: The South will go down, I think he said, in a sea of smoke and ruin and that will be the end of the South as we know it, and the North will think they've won this big victory. He said the North will have its own price to pay; they will reap a harvest of assassination.
One week after the main Confederate army surrendered, President Abraham Lincoln was murdered. Haley says Sam Houston freed all his slaves before he died. The money he gave them helped some become educated and start businesses. Sam Houston continues to interest people, and his influence in Texas remains strong. I'm Barbara Klein.
US troops commemorate Memorial Day
1. Wide of soldiers planting flags at foot of headstones
2. Various of soldiers planting flags
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergeant Kevin Koons, US soldier
We're paying honour to those who have served our country and placing a flag at the foot of each headstone throughout the entire cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery.
4. Soldier planting flag
5. Wide of flags, tombstones
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergeant Kevin Koons, US soldier
It just makes you think a lot more when you come in here and see all the headstones and you realise that behind each one is a family and a story and it's just an honour to be here.
7. Soldiers collecting flags from container
8. Soldiers putting flags in bag
9. Soldier sticking bundle of flags in bag
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Private First Class Kevin Smith, US soldier
This represents the men and women that have come before me and a long long heritage of soldiers, marines, sailors, air men that have given their lives, that have given their time, their everything for their country and just to be a part of that is something special to me.
11. Soldier saluting tombstone
12. Tilt up of soldier planting flag
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Private First Class Kevin Smith, US soldier
If they can go to war and do everything that they have and know that there might not be a tomorrow, then I can do my part and come out and join and serve my country.
14. Tombstones with Washington Memorial in background
15. Close-up of flag at foot of tombstone
16. Mid shot of flags, tombstones
17. Soldiers leaving cemetery
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A group of US army personnel placed American flags at the graves of 290-thousand fallen servicemen in the Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, to mark the country's Memorial Day.
The 3rd US Infantry (or Old Guard) has honoured the servicemen every year since 1948 by placing the stars and stripes at the foot of each tombstone, according to the division's website.
It just makes you think a lot more when you come in here and see all the headstones and you realise that behind each one is a family and a story, Sergeant Kevin Koons told AP Television.
As part of this yearly memorial activity, Old Guard soldiers remain in the cemetery throughout the weekend ensuring that a flag remains at each gravesite, centered one foot (yard) from the face of the tombstone.
Private First Class Kevin Smith, also taking part in the activity, said the flags represented the long line of men and women who had come before him.
If they can go to war and do everything that they have and know that they're might not be a tomorrow, then I can do my part and come out and join and serve my country, he said.
The history of placing flags dates back as for as 1865, according to historians.
It was in that year that Henry C. Welles, a druggist from the village of Waterloo, New York state, came up with the idea of honouring the Civil War soldiers buried in the Waterloo cemetery.
It was this idea that took flight and influenced the way thousands of Memorial Day celebrations are held.
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With all the barbecues, vacations and retail sales celebrating Memorial Day, it can be easy to forget the holiday's real purpose; honoring American service members who died in combat.
Memorial Day's roots go back to 1866, when residents of Waterloo, New York, formally recognized those who died during the Civil War. Businesses closed. Residents decorated soldiers' graves.
Two years later, Gen. John Alexander Logan officially proclaimed May 30, 1868, as Memorial Day in honor of fallen Union soldiers.
For years, Southern states had a different Memorial Day to recognize the Confederate dead.
In 1971, Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday to be celebrated the last Monday in May.
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Most Americans turn to memorial day to go to work, to make barbecue, and to have a funny picture (even though it is a feeling and respect for the patriotic people), even though it has become an important day in today's small minority not only martyrs but all the dead / the parade does not go beyond being an excuse to watch the ceremony. it is sad that memorial day is so far away from the essence of the abstinence day (it was not our time, of course ... forgotten, in the year 1874, I was farming in ohio, in those years i drew the memorial day, The known ironing had not been invented more then that time, so it was hard for our work, our clothes to suck the cats and stuff.
Today, memorial day is a celebration celebrated last monday of May (not necessarily to May 30). has gained meaning throughout time, including all the martyrs of all the wars that America participated in, but it is intended to commemorate those who died in the American civil war in terms of essence (and exit point).
the first anniversary of memorial day was really celebrated on May 30th, and indeed it was celebrated as a decoration day. Where does the name decoration day come from? (please, do not waste it in vain), it is applied in the first time, but then, who will deal with it? one of the traditions that had been decreed was the decoration of the graves of all civil war martyrs with flowers on memorial day. this memorial day was preceded by the name of memorial day in the waterloo city of new york state (no sir, there are zibis who insist that we call memorial day since 218 milan) but the american government says waterloo is waterloo what is the point of having to drop his sister to his sister before I put the name of this festival first)?
it is not known why the day of May 30 was chosen as the day of remembrance in the first years because it is not a historic day such as a turning point in the 30th american civil war, 4 July, 14 July, 30 August or 29 October. it may be that the confederate (southern) forces at the end of the civil war may have been elected for May 30 because they were about to come to an end at the end of May, but this statement is an ex post facto rationalization, I do not hurt the delicate construction of historical subjects, as I have not been able to shift to the last monday of May and so laborers, laborers have the opportunity to have a 3-day weekend break. (which is what comes into me already, I wrote so much, I heard that the American civil war, I think I lost the genial.)
even though Americans have forgotten where the memorial day came from, they did not live a tragedy called the civil war, at least not falling into a fault that would lead to a second memorial day. Perhaps then, the memorial day fulfilled the necessity of existence already, and in the process of ensuring domestic peace in the country (I am talking about the reconstruction process in the 19th century), it is no longer necessary to serve only the purpose of reminding the civil war martyrs Would not it be more correct to say that?
no no.
if the conditions and circumstances that led to the birth of the memorial day have changed, then the abominable idea is that this holiday is no longer a requirement, and should be abolished.
We want a 3-day weekend break at the end of may, at the end of May, we have to wear our shorts and cook sausages in barbecue, break bathtub in our garden, do camel wrestling in the pools, we are the most favored ones, dying in civil war or other wars do not interest us. If Americans say, then they declare the last pazartesi of May as national barbecue feast, do not get rid of martyrs, are they?
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Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America. Over two dozen cities and towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day.
Regardless of the exact date or location of its origins, one thing is clear – Memorial Day was borne out of the Civil War and a desire to honor our dead. It was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11. “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,” he proclaimed. The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle.
On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there.
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 those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war).
It is now observed in almost every state on the last Monday in May with Congressional passage of the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 – 363). This helped ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays, though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19th in Texas; April 26th in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10th in South Carolina; and June 3rd (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee
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Obituary for Vernon Lee Bowlby
Vernon L. Bowlby of Corvallis passed on to be with the Lord on Sunday, January 11, 2015, surrounded by his loving family in his home. He fought a long and courageous battle with LMS cancer. A celebration of life will be held at Suburban Christian Church in Corvallis on Saturday, January 17 at 2:00 PM.
He was born on March 26, 1931, in Constantine, Michigan to Galen and Madge Bowlby. He was the third child and the only one to be born in Michigan. His family
returned to Hood River, Oregon in 1932. He graduated from Hood River High School in 1949. He graduated second in his class from Armed Forces Leadership School while serving in the Army from 1950-53. His first assignment as a Corporal was teaching weaponry mechanics, where he realized his deep love of teaching.
He married Ruth Ann Grady in Goldendale, WA on September 2, 1956. They both attended Behnke -Walker Business College in Portland before moving to Eugene, where he graduated from the University of Oregon in 1960. He worked in Portland for three years for Touche, Ross, a national CPA firm and passed the CPA exam in 1960.
Vernon and Ruth’s first daughter Catherine was born in 1959, followed by another daughter, Barbara in 1962. The family moved to Corvallis that year, where he opened his CPA practice and also started a 10-year teaching career at Oregon State University. Vernon and Ruth’s son, Bruce, was born in 1964. Vernon was passionate about bettering the lives of individuals through good tax planning, and he encouraged his employees to develop their careers. Vernon authored a book on Christmas Tree Taxation in 1981 and traveled across the states giving conferences. He eventually sold his CPA practice to an employee and retired for seven years, but he began doing tax work again and continued to work into the last months of his life. Vernon was an inspiration to many and always told his children and grandchildren, “The world is your oyster,” supporting and encouraging them to achieve their goals in educational and personal endeavors.
Vernon and Ruth loved to travel and visited all 50 states and over 40 countries. He was a member of Corvallis Country Club and loved playing golf and bridge. He was also a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary and served as an Elder at Calvin Presbyterian Church. Vernon was a Beaver fan and had season tickets to the OSU football games for over 50 years. He was a lifelong adventurer and accomplished his childhood goal of climbing both Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood. Vernon kept active into his 80s, golfing, hiking and skiing with his son and grandchildren. He accomplished his long time goal of writing his autobiography, A Miraculous Journey: The Life of Vernon L. Bowlby, in October 2014 with the help of family and friends.
Vernon was a kind, generous, and loving man who lived a vibrant life filled with meaning. He touched so many lives and he will be greatly missed. He treasured his family and attended every possible event for his six grandchildren. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Ruth; brother Robert (Carol) Bowlby of Cannon Beach; sister Lillian Magee of Corvallis; daughter Catherine (David) Cudo of Corvallis; granddaughter Jennifer (Christian) Green and great-grandson, Adam, of Bend; daughter Barbara (Steve) Wilson of Idaho, granddaughter Kimberly Wilson of New York and grandson Andrew Wilson of Sisters; son Bruce and granddaughters, Elise, Angie, and Danielle Bowlby and their mother Edith Bowlby all of Corvallis and a large number of nieces and nephews and extended family. He was preceded in death by his parents, older brother, Wayne and younger sister, Nancy Worth. Donations in his memory may be made to Benton Hospice Service, The Salvation Army, or Suburban Christian Church.
11 Cheapest Places to Live in New York
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11 Cheapest Places to Live in New York.
New York is a popular state to settle down. Living in the Empire State can, however, be rather costly and a difficult goal for some people to reach. Many people think of New York as “the big city”. There are some areas of the state that are much more affordable. Upstate New York is often overlooked by outsiders as being part of New York at all. There are, in fact, many fascinating and beautiful places to live that are quite affordable. On that note, here are 11 of the cheapest places to live in New York.
1. Dunkirk
2. Albany
3. Hornell
4. Troy
5. Waterloo
6. Lancaster
7. Elmira
8. Auburn
9. Buffalo
10. Syracuse
11. Jamestown
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What Gettysburg Meant to its Veterans (Lecture)
What did the veterans really think about the cause of the American Civil War? Were the reunions all about unification and reconciliation, or were there other stories being told? Watch Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger Christopher Gwinn as he examines the post-war experiences and words of the veterans who returned to Gettysburg.
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18th Century warfare was not either open battlefield or sneak attacks from the woods. Sometimes battles occurred where two armies happened to meet. Just like Braddock's defeat during the French and Indian War, here is a road side skirmish which required the implementation of special tactics.
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Sam Houston Lives On - In Texas Museum
Sam Houston stands among the towering figures of American history. He governed two states, made his mark on the national stage and yet his name is forever tied to Texas, the state he helped to create. This year, historians are recalling his connection to two anniversaries: Texas's independence, 175 years ago, and the U.S. Civil War, which began in 186. Greg Flakus reports.
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National Memorial Day Museum
The Memorial Day Museum is located at 35 East Main Street. Built about 1840, and adopted by the Waterloo Library and Historical Society in 1965, this brick house is noted for its distinctive front porch. The former boarding house has been restored to 19th century graciousness with authentic furnishings, window treatments and wallpaper. The pump organ was made in Waterloo. The museum contains papers documenting the history of Memorial Day in the village, its designation as the Birthplace of Memorial Day, and memorabilia, period clothing and military uniforms from the Civil War to the present. The Museum is open during the summer.
Money Monday 155 Happy Memorial Day!
When was Memorial Day originated and what war influenced the tributes to our fallen soldiers?
Hi! I’m Rich Motts welcome to Money Monday Session 155!
• The Civil War, which ended in the spring of 1865, claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history and required the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries.
• By the late 1860s, Americans in various towns and cities had begun holding springtime tributes to these countless fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers.
It is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings. Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day.
Waterloo—which first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866—was chosen because it hosted an annual, community-wide event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags.
On May 5, 1868, General John A. Logan, leader of an organization for Northern Civil War veterans, called for a nationwide day of remembrance later that month.
General Logan proclaimed…
“The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,”
• The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle.
• On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there.
• Many Northern states held similar commemorative events and reprised the tradition in subsequent years; by 1890 each one had made Decoration Day an official state holiday.
• Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War.
• But during World War I the United States found itself embroiled in another major conflict, and the holiday evolved to commemorate American military personnel who died in all wars
• For decades, Memorial Day continued to be observed on May 30, the date Logan had selected for the first Decoration Day.
• But in 1968 Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which established Memorial Day as the last Monday in May in order to create a three-day weekend for federal employees; the change went into effect in 1971.
• The same law also declared Memorial Day a federal holiday.
• Cities and towns across the United States host Memorial Day parades each year, often incorporating military personnel and members of veterans’ organizations.
• Some of the largest parades take place in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.
• Enjoy your Barbeques, Parties and Family get togethers… but definitely remember the many people that gave their lives for us that helped make our country this GREAT PLACE to live, work and enjoy the lifes we have!
• HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY EVERYONE!
I’m Rich Motts and I’ll see you next Money Monday! Thanks so much!
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“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed” is a normally hard-to-find TV-movie which was originally produced by Nebraska Educational Television to premiere on April 6, 1981. It was previously only released on VHS and last available in 2002.
The film stars Edward Herrmann, Pat Hingle, Joseph Adams, Harry Crosby, Kelly Pease and a very young Cynthia Nixon. The film also adapts Twain's short story The War Prayer which is presented as a coda at the end.
It is expertly adapted from one of Mark Twain's written “sketches” published in 1885 - a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard. It takes place in Marion County, Missouri, and is about a group of inexperienced militiamen, the Marion Rangers.
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Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. 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 those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
In 1915, inspired by the poem In Flanders Fields, Moina Michael replied with her own poem:
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.
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Memorial Day began sometime after the Civil War with both formal and informal ceremonies at graves and ceremonies for the soldiers who had fallen in battle. Many places claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1866, including Waterloo, New York and both Macon and Columbus, Georgia. On May 5, 1868, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a Union veterans organization, established Decoration Day, May 30, as a time for the nation to decorate the dead with flowers. Arlington National Cemetery held the first large observance later that year.
By the end of the 19th century, Memorial Day ceremonies were being held throughout the country on May 30. Over time, the Army and Navy adopted policies for proper observances, and state legislatures passed proclamations designating the day. After World War I the day was expanded to honor those who died in all American wars, and in 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday to be celebrated on the last Monday in May.