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Memorial Day - Coggle Diagram
Memorial Day
the USA
federal holiday: banks and schools are closed
celebration with friends and family
20 000 soldiers
May 30th 1868 : first Memorial Day
national monument
originally called Decoration Day
the last Monday of May
parades
symbols
a flag for each tombstone
Arlington cemetery
flowers in bloom
Gettysburg
American flag
tribute to the servicemen and women who fought for liberty and equality
red poppies
Flanders fields
history
Civil War ended in 1865
World War I (1914/1918)
war
World War II
Saint-Avold
World War II (1939/1945)
American cemetery