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A Minute of Silence Today

  • May 26, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Today is Memorial Day, honoring members of the U.S. armed forces who lost their lives in war. In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed the National Moment of Remembrance Act, which calls for people to remember the fallen with a minute of silence at 3 p.m. local time.

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