Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a celebration held on May 5.
The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16.
The modern American holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia. Her campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her beloved mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died. Anna’s mission was to honor her own mother by continuing work she had started and to set aside a day to honor mothers, "the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world." Anna's mother, Ann Jarvis, was a peace activist who had cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War and created Mother’s Day Work Clubs to address public health issues.
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The Visitation for Florida State Brother Swoop will be held on Monday, May 4th, 2015, from 2:00 - 4:00pm
and 6:00 - 8:00pm at Aycock Funeral Home,1504 SE Floresta Drive, Port St. Lucie, Florida 34983.
Interment for Florida State Brother Swoop will be at the South Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth, FL
on May 5th, 2015, at 2:00pm. Per the families request, all U.S. Military Vets meet at the National Cemetery
by 1:30pm to line both sides of the entrance road for Swoops arrival.