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:

    “The question mark is alright when it is all alone when it
    is used as a brand on cattle or when it could be used
    in decoration but connected with writing it is
    completely entirely completely uninteresting.... A
    question is a question, anybody can know that a
    question is a question and so why add to it the
    question mark when it is already there when the
    question is already there in the writing.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Then down came the lid—the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a “war to end war.” But it merely ended art. It did not end war.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)