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Planes, trains and aggravation: 38 million people expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend. 11 spectacular photos of jets spitting fire with their afterburners. Declassified photos show the US ...
Memorial Day Captions. "Who kept the faith and fought the fight; the glory theirs, the duty ours." – Wallace Bruce. "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than ...
1. “Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.”-. Barack Obama. 2. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to ...
The Veterans Memorial Coliseum (originally known as the Memorial Coliseum) is an indoor arena located in the oldest part of the Rose Quarter area in Portland, Oregon. The arena is the home of the Portland Winterhawks , a major junior ice hockey team, and was the original home of the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association .
Memorial Day. Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2] [3] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of ...
The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War. It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded male soldier to symbolize the support and caregiving roles that women played in the war as nurses and other specialists. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and ...
Another Memorial Day tradition is placing small flags on the graves of those who gave their all for our country. If you wish to do so, there's proper etiquette for that, too.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington D.C., dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, and to the era he represents. The memorial is one of two in Washington honoring Roosevelt. Dedicated on May 2, 1997, by President Bill Clinton, the national memorial ...