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.
By proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, the first major Memorial Day observance is held to honor those who died âin defense of their country during the late rebellion.â Known to some as âDecoration Day,â mourners honored the Civil War dead by decorating their graves with flowers.