On a Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, graves of the fallen stretch in rows to the horizon. (Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress) By the Sunday before Memorial Day my father would ...

Monday, May 27 will mark the national holiday of Memorial Day. It is often observed by sales and merchandising or picnics, but it has a more somber tone which should be taken seriously. Memorial Day ...

On this Memorial Day, fewer American troops are deployed in global combat zones than there have been in decades. But this is far from a time of peace. Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, simmering ...

The annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the St. Landry Parish Veterans Memorial has been canceled. "It is with heartfelt regrets that St. Landry Parish Veterans Memorial Committee will not host a public ...

Lubbockites and West Texans will join Americans across the nation this Memorial Day, May 26, to honor service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Several events marking ...

There were a handful of churches, a temple, a couple of schools, and upwards of 600 or so families, some of whose “boys” were shipping off to Viet Nam. It was the mid-1960s, in one of the farther-out ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – Joining us this morning is Justin Driver with Forward Church. It is the Sunday before Memorial Day. How do you think churches should observe Memorial Day? Driver: Well, I’ll tell ...

Lubbock area veterans advocacy groups including the VFW and Military Order of the Purple Heart partnered with Second Baptist Church to host the eighth annual Memorial Day Service of Prayer Sunday ...

Fort McCoy community members gathered May 27 ahead of Memorial Day weekend for the Religious Support Office’s Memorial Day Prayer Luncheon. The guest speaker was the Rev. Randy Brandt, a retired ...

HOUSTON -- A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from censoring a pastor's Memorial Day ceremony prayer. Pastor Scott Rainey, of the Living Word Church of The Nazarene, ...

As a kid, as an unwilling accomplice, during these annual rituals there wasn’t much for me to do except find the shade of a nearby tree and listen with the bored disinterest of a designated witness to ...

We are here to show our brothers and sisters that they are not forgotten. Someday we’ll all be together again. We will talk about the good times and the bad times we shared. We will be laughing and ...