Memorial Day: Memorial Day parades and ceremonies

by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist Monday evening bring us a first quarter moon, offering US skywatchers a chance to close out the Memorial Day holiday with a lunar treat and the fading planet Mars. The first quarter moon is also sometimesResidents say it was here, in the years after the Civil War, that Memorial Day was born. They say that in the other Columbus, too. It does not take much for the historically curious in either town — like Richard Gardiner, a professor of teacherWe

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