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)
“Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)