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http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...ts-oldest-memorial-day-parade-in-the-country/PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Doylestown is gearing up for tomorrow’s holiday celebration featuring the oldest Memorial Day parade in the country and a service remembering the members of the military who gave their lives fighting for our freedom. The parade dates back 145 years; older by one year than the parades in Brooklyn, New York and Ironton, Ohio.
http://www.destinationgettysburg.com/event/details/9300The Gettysburg Joint Veterans Memorial Day Commission would like to announce that the 149th Annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony in Gettysburg. This is a great way to remember and honor those men and women who died while serving our country. The 149th Annual Gettysburg Memorial Day parade and ceremony is one of the oldest continuing ceremonies in the country.
http://articles.herald-mail.com/201...ntietam-national-cemetery-memorial-day-paradeAntietam National Battlefield Superintendent Susan Trail served as grand marshal. Trail, who has been superintendent for less than a year, said Saturday was her first time attending the parade and it was “wonderful.”
Trail said the town’s tradition of commemorating Memorial Day is one of the earliest in the United States.
“It dates back to the dedication of Antietam National Cemetery on Sept. 17, 1867, which was the fifth anniversary of that battle,” Trail said. At the time, it was referred to as Decoration Day, Trail said, as people decorated the graves of the war dead with flowers.
http://sharpsburgmd.com/history/Veterans and families later made their pilgrimages, walking from the train station through the town to the National Cemetery. The town’s Memorial Day Parade, begun in the 1860’s, was the first in the nation and continues today as an occasion of solemn remembrance
http://waterloony.com/memorial-day/celebrate-commemorate/On a spring day in 1865, Waterloo, NY druggist Henry C. Welles watched as a lone widow walked to the cemetery to place flowers on the grave of her deceased Civil War soldier husband. How soon they forget, Welles thought, resolving to do something to make sure that those who gave their lives in defense of their country would not be forgotten. Working with Gen. John B. Murray, Welles planned the first Memorial Day in Waterloo in 1866, and for 150 consecutive years, Waterloo’s citizens have remembered.
The following cities claim the honor of having had the oldest Memorial Day Parade in the country, except one.
Which one of the following four cities does not make this claim?
A. Doylestown, PA
B. Gettysburg, PA
C. Sharpsburg, MD
D. Waterloo, NY
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