In 1966, a century after Logan’s order, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day. That same year, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act ...

Their love story, spanning 34 years, began when they were 22 and 18, sealed in marriage on Christmas Day 1988, and faced its earthly conclusion when leukemia claimed her at 52 on another Christmas Day ...