A Program for the Dead of Past Wars in 1917

From the May 31, 2017, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois)  "Looking Back.:

1917, 100 Years Ago.

"A Program will be given by Hattie Chesbro's eighth grade of the Haisch school at 9:30 o'clock at the Lucinda Avenue bridge over the Kishwaukee to commemorate the memory of the many dead in the past wars.  (DeKalb, Illinois)

"The program is always very appropriate and the public is invited to attend.  While a reading is given by Lola Maxwell, flowers will be scattered on the water and a salute to the flag given."

This, of course, would be Memorial Day/Decoration Day.

And, the United States was just weeks away from declaring war and entering World War I.

--Cooter

Arlington National Cemetery's 150th-- Part 2: Eight Things You Might Not Have Known

3.  It hosted the first national Memorial Day (called Decoration Day back then) in 1868.

4.  It is the only national cemetery with servicemen buried there from every war the U.S. fought.  The first military burial wasn't until 1864, but in 1892 Revolutionary War dead were reinterred from a Georgetown cemetery.  War of 1812 veterans were also reburied there.

--Brock-Perry