Eighteen-year-old Xinyi Wang’s bus rolled up to Memorial Union on an August night.

一个八月的夜晚，十八岁的王欣怡（音译）乘坐的大巴到达纪念联盟门口。

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Officially, in the North, Memorial Day emerged in 1868 when the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union veterans' organization, called on communities to conduct grave-decorating ceremonies.

据官方声称，美国北方第一次出现阵亡纪念日是在1868年。当时，由退伍军人联合会组成的共和大军号召各社区群众对阵亡战士的坟墓进行装饰。

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To celebrate the centennial of this plan several events have been held during this year, such as the Union Station 2020 competition and the Burnham Memorial competition.

今年，为了庆祝这一计划进行到百年，举办了2020年联合车站设计竞赛以及伯纳姆纪念碑设计竞赛。

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The backlash in the streets started Tuesday morning, several hours before more than 25, 000 largely peaceful marchers headed from a union-backed rally at Memorial Stadium, near the Space Needle, toward the shops and hotels of downtown.

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During Wednesday's service, the union jack was lowered before being taken to a memorial garden at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire where future repatriation flights will land.

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The Northern Ireland Conservative Party has previously expressed concern that putting a union flag 356 days a year on the Belfast war memorial could "diminish the flag and debase and politicise a place of remembrance".

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