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Memorial Day began as Decoration Day to honor the dead soldiers from the Civil War.\u00a0 However, it did not become a federal holiday until 1967.\u00a0 When the academic year used to run through June at Notre Dame, students and faculty members participated in local parades and held ceremonies for the fallen military members of the Notre Dame community at the cemeteries.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame Military Companies marching in a Decoration Day (Memorial Day) parade in South Bend, 1913\/0530<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0The ceremonies at Notre Dame included the recitation of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, addresses by students and patriotic songs, and a requiem mass.\u00a0 In 1925, Notre Dame created a memorial to her students who died in World War I at the east door of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which bears the epitaph “God, Country, Notre Dame.”\u00a0 Through World War II, Memorial Day Masses and ceremonies were held outside of this door.<\/p>\n

Memorial Day Ceremony held outside of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart’s World War I Memorial Door, view from above, 1941\/0530<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The change in the academic year to end in May and the observance of Memorial Day as a national holiday leaves campus rather quiet.<\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/em>
\nScholastic<\/em>
\nPNDP 70-Me-01<\/a>
\nGMIL 2\/04<\/a>
\nGDIS 29\/02<\/a><\/p>\n

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