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Originally Posted by jmurrell
Maybe it's changed since I was a youngun then. Summers I spent in rural Mississippi Memorial Day was the big deal. I had an uncle who explained, quite forcefully, that the Fourth was a Yankee event, and not appropriate. He was slightly more colorful than that of course. Could just be a family quirk though.
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Family thing, I suspect. Any excuse for a party is inherently valid and the 4th was not a Yankee Victory of them crackers what tried to rebel, but a commemoration of our independence from Britain, both North and South.
That said, Nascar is responisble for the growth of memorial day as a holiday. ;)