T.I.さんのインスタグラム写真 - (T.I.Instagram)「Nowadays, Memorial Day honors veterans of all wars, (Alongside backyard cookouts and piped up mansion pool parties) but its roots are in America’s deadliest conflict, the Civil War (The war fought to abolish slavery) . Approximately 620,000 soldiers died, about two-thirds from disease. The work of honoring the dead began right away all over the country, and several American towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. Researchers have traced the earliest annual commemoration to women who laid flowers on soldiers’ graves in the Civil War hospital town of Columbus, Miss., in April 1866. But historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers’ graves a year earlier, to make sure their story gets told too. According to Yale University historian, David Blight, former Black slaves honored dead Union soldiers in a ceremony that is seen as the precursor to the observation of the modern Memorial Day. When one says that Black History is American history, truer words were never spoken. On May 1st 1865 in Charleston, SC when 250-257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp were honored. Lead by freedmen (former enslaved Africans), they dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. Events like these should be ever present in our minds as we dress our best, fire up the grill to feed ourselves, & get lit til da sun rises in celebrations. Because knowing the origins of WHAT you're celebrating (AND WHY!!!) should definitively impact the WAYS WE choose to celebrate. Now TURN UP FOR THE ANCESTORS‼️ #HappyMemorialDay」5月26日 1時50分