Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May to honor fallen U.S. service members. Originally known as Decoration Day, it began as early as 1868 through the Grand Army of the ...

Decoration Day is the original name for the observance, and some people still use the term, although Memorial Day is the official name. Abbreviated as GAR, the organization for Union army veterans ...

Patriotic Order Sons of America Camp 113 will hold a brief memorial remembrance ceremony May 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Henry P.

Memorial Day's history begins after the Civil War. It became a federal holiday in 1971 and is marked with cemetery visits, ...

Marking 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe, dozens gathered Thursday at the National World War II Memorial to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing soldiers at the Adampur Air Force base today, quoted some lines from a poem, which, ...

Memorial Day got its start three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, when the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of ... a World War I poem.

In Papua New Guinea, there’s a trail that teaches you more than just endurance — it teaches camaraderie. It’s a journey where ...

VE Day 80th anniversary wreath laying ceremony at the royal British Legion Memorial Forest adjacent to Nansledan School, ...

Joseph Holt, who has led Choral Artists of Sarasota for 16 years, will retire as the organization considers its next steps.