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Decoration Day   /dˌɛkərˈeɪʃən deɪ/   Listen
Decoration Day

noun
1.
Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war.  Synonym: Memorial Day.





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"Decoration day" Quotes from Famous Books



... felt—me to be shot in two weeks and my only hope for help being in a government that's been dead so long that it isn't even remembered except on Decoration Day and when Joe Wheeler signs the voucher for his pay-check. But it was all there was in sight; and somehow I thought Doc Millikin had something up his old alpaca ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
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... time I met him,—it was only four years ago last spring, but it seems like a lifetime. It was Decoration Day, and it was so beautiful I went out with another girl to the Park, and we sat on the grass and looked at the sky and wished we lived in the country. He was in an automobile; I never did know exactly how it happened,—we looked ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
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... place of sorrow. No longer will the people assemble in cemeteries on Decoration Day to pay tribute to their hero dead, because then their dead will be restored to them; and the one who shall be the greatest hero in their minds and hearts will be the great Messiah, who has brought the people the unspeakable blessings. Then will the people assemble, ...
— The Harp of God • J. F. Rutherford
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... at the battle of Gettysburg. He lies in Woodlawn Cemetery. I am never at home on Decoration Day. I am always on the road with the circus, so I ...
— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington
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... always called my father Bill Slade. I didn't ever hear anybody call him Mister. But anyway, he was born in the United States—that's one sure thing. And so was my grandfather and my grandmother, too. Once my father licked me because I forgot to hang out the flag on Decoration Day. That shows he was patriotic, doesn't it? The other day I was going to tell you about my uncle but I forgot to. He was in the Civil War—he got his arm shot off. So I got a lot to be proud about, anyway. Just because my father didn't get a job ...
— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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