Holiday began as memorial to Union's Civil War dead.(news)

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

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COPYRIGHT 2004 Las Vegas Review-Journal

BYLINE: J.M. KALIL , REVIEW-JOURNAL

Each year on Memorial Day, much of the nation's attention is focused on those who died battling Adolf Hitler's forces in Europe or fighting in the jungles of Vietnam.

That's not surprising, considering the makeup of the survivors.

Of the 16.9 million living American war veterans, nine out of 10 served during World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War. The remaining minority are veterans of the two...

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