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.
Decoration Day officially was established in 1868 by Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, the commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, the primary organization representing Union veterans of the Civil War. Logan called for May 30th to be an annual day nationally to decorate war graves. But a Presidential Proclamation in 1966 gave credit to Waterloo, NY, as the birth place of Memorial Day (Decoration Day) on May 5th, 1866.