Decoration Day

Decoration Day is the former name of Memorial Day in the United States, and may also refer to:

  • Decoration Day (song), a song by Sonny Boy Williamson I, later performed by John Lee Hooker
  • Decoration Day (album), a 2003 album by Drive-By Truckers
  • Decoration Day (film), a 1990 American film based on a novel by John William Corrington
  • Decoration Day (music), the 2nd movement of A Symphony: New England Holidays by American composer Charles Ives
  • Decoration Day at Old Soldiers' Home, a 1914 American film produced by Vitagraph Company of America

Famous quotes containing the words decoration and/or day:

    “If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort,—who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Two lads that thought there was no more behind
    But such a day tomorrow as today,
    And to be boy eternal.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)