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In 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, several Union Army veterans established a day to honor those who had fallen during the nation's deadliest conflict. The crowd attending the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., numbered about 5,000 people.
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