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2. Eh. Also started as a day to decorate Confederate graves.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon May 30, 2016, 07:16 PM

May 2016

This other story is a newer "discovery," if true. It's a nice enough legend that deserves to be true, but probably isn't. (A branch of my family has been in Charleston since the early 1700s and no one had ever heard of this story.)

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That's the claim. Igel May 2016 #1

Eh. Also started as a day to decorate Confederate graves. REP May 2016 #2