Indigestible means that your digestive enzymes can't break fiber down. However, the structure of dietary fiber is altered when you chew, and some is digested by bacteria in your colon. Other fiber passes through your body mostly unchanged.
It began after the Civil War, and â¦was originally known as Decoration Day. Memorial Day started to be used more in the early years of the 20th century, and by the post WW II years, it was universally known as Memorial Day.
The south refused to acknowledge the holiday, instead choosing to honor their dead on separate days. This changed, however, after World War I when the holiday became a way to honor all who have died in any war, not just the Civil War. Almost every state currently honors Memorial Day on the last Monday in May. Several southern states still have additional days for honoring the Confederate soldiers who died at war.