The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to ...

FILE – Families visit Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington ... more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865.

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate ... speech at Arlington National Cemetery ...