What do Napoleon, Abba, and Memorial Day share in common?

If you said Waterloo then congratulations your next ISF filing is on us =)

As we look forward to celebrating Memorial Day on Monday,  hopefully many of us will fly our American flags proudly throughout the holiday weekend. Despite our differences, as Americans, we have a lot to be thankful for and more in common than we might sometimes realize.

However we choose to observe Memorial Day, let us remember those who have died for our country and pray for those who still continue to serve.

If you said Waterloo then congratulations your next ISF filing is on us =)

As we look forward to celebrating Memorial Day on Monday,  hopefully many of us will fly our American flags proudly throughout the holiday weekend. Despite our differences, as Americans, we have a lot to be thankful for and more in common than we might sometimes realize.

However we choose to observe Memorial Day, let us remember those who have died for our country and pray for those who still continue to serve.

Now briefly back to Waterloo. Abba first sang "At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender" and "Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Waterloo, Finally facing my Waterloo" at the 1974 Eurovision song contest (long before American Idol was a thing).

The song references Napoleon's 1815 defeat in the Battle of Waterloo at the hands of the British and Prussians which marked the end of his reign. One year later the upstate town of New Hudson, NY was renamed Waterloo.

This same Waterloo town is credited with instituting our country's first Memorial Day celebration in 1866 one year after JW Hampton was founded and the Civil War came to an end - a war in which both the founder of our company, John W. Hampton and my great-great-grandfather John W. Shoule served. Read more below (if you choose) about the town from Waterloo's website.