The first official Memorial Day observance was May 30, 1868 — just three years after the Civil War ended. On what was called ...

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So I joined the Marines at 17, got sent to Vietnam three ... Had a guy with a full confederate uniform and a big confederate flag waving around at all the pep rallies. - [Beatrice] His ...

Griffin said he regretted donning the Confederate uniform, which was customary during the fraternity's annual "Old South" ball. "I attended a college fraternity event that, in hindsight ...

Jefferson Griffin was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a college fraternity that glorified the pre-Civil War South.

Griffin said he regretted donning the Confederate uniform, which was customary during the fraternity's annual "Old South" ball. "I attended a college fraternity event that, in hindsight ...

This detail from a photograph obtained by The Associated Press shows Jefferson Griffin among dozens of other Kappa Alpha fraternity members wearing Confederate military uniforms in the early 2000s ...

"Take it at its full face value," said Kyle Bibby, co-founder of the Black Veterans Project and a former infantry captain in the Marines ... whose original, Confederate-inspired names had ...

Marines at the Pentagon will switch from camouflage to formal "service" uniforms soon. The change is seen as costly and inconvenient, with no clear explanation from leaders. Other military ...