![]() ![]() ![]() In 1920, the Memorial Amphitheater was formally dedicated and opened to the public. ![]() The expansion was approved in 1913 with construction beginning in 1915. This amphitheater drew in large crowds every year resulting in a 1903 proposal by Judge Ivory Kimball (also a civil war veteran) to expand the amphitheater. Shortly after, in 1873, construction of an amphitheater was completed near the Arlington House with its intended use for Decoration Day remembrance and commemoration. Logan (also an Illinois congressional representative and the commander-in-chief for the GAR – Grand Army of the Republic – the nation’s largest organization of Union veterans) designated May 30 th as a day of national remembrance and called it “Decoration Day”. The Civil War left the US with a high number of casualty rates for soldiers not provided personal identification which left family members without any idea of what happened to their loved ones. The Civil War ended on April 5 th, 1865, but the suffering and the pain of loss didn’t end, even in 1868. This history of Memorial Day is long but not complicated and dates back to the Civil War. ![]()
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