{"id":17,"date":"2013-05-28T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:26:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/2013\/05\/28\/17\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day in the Digital Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the Memorial Day weekend, here are some related items in the UNT digital collections:  \"Memorial<\/a><\/p><\/div>

~ The Library of Congress Congressional Research Service has published  this list<\/a> of commemorative observances from 2004-2006, if you want to know about other national holidays.<\/p>

~ In Grayson County Reminiscences: The First 150 Years<\/a>, one author tells about the Memorial Day traditions in Van Alstyne, Texas in which the families gather together to tend the graves in the local cemetery.<\/p>

~ According to the Texas Almanac, there are special rules governing the Texas state flag on Memorial Day: “On Memorial Day, the state flag should be displayed at half-staff until noon and at that time raised to the peak of the flagpole.” —  Texas Almanac, 2004-2005<\/a>  Regulations for displaying the United States flag are published in this CRS report<\/a>.<\/p>

~ Here are some newspaper articles about Memorial Day activities in El Paso, Texas, 1900<\/a> and Canadian, Texas, 1956<\/a>.  Find more in the Portal.<\/a><\/p>

~ During World War II, 150,000 people gathered in Houston, Texas to remember the sailors killed in action.  Read more in 1941: Texas Goes to War<\/a>.<\/p>

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See more “Memorial Day” items in The Portal to Texas History<\/a> and the UNT Digital Library<\/a>.<\/p>

Here are some additional items about military personnel <\/a>in the Portal.<\/p>\"[Memorial<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In honor of the Memorial Day weekend, here are some related items in the UNT digital collections:  ~ The Library of Congress Congressional Research Service has published  this list of commemorative observances from 2004-2006, if you want to know about other national holidays.~ In Grayson County Reminiscences: The First 150 Years, one author tells about… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[36,12,62,63,64,65,1,4],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-features","tag-holidays","tag-memorial_day","tag-military_personnel","tag-national_holidays","tag-remembrances","tag-the_portal_to_texas_history","tag-unt_digital_library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5tTwC-17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}