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@samantharonson : #memorialday #Repost @robthomas ・・・ Reposting from our friend, Matin on the origins of Memorial Day. Thanks for the education. #Repost @itsmatin with @get_repost ・・・ #Slavery is impossible to imagine but racial slavery of a group of innocent free people, selling them, breaking and brutalizing them is something I cannot imagine anyone is capable of. Blessed be the soldiers that gave their lives to protect and fight for the freedom of those that had no voice. #MemorialDay was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in #Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead #UnionSoldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated. Thanks to #Abstrakt #Goldsmith for this nugget of history that most of us never learned in school. #happymemorialday