Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

Flags are placed in front of headstones for fallen soldiers. McDonald’s makes major change to restaurant opening hours nationwide Chinese college gives Harvard international students "unconditional ...

In 1873, New York was the first state to designate Memorial Day as a legal holiday. After World War II, it became an occasion ...

Every year around Memorial Day members of the military walk the grounds and place a small flags at more than 260,000 headstones. The United States flag is one of the most significant symbols of ...

More than 1,500 soldiers from The Old Guard placed American flags at more than 260,000 headstones at Arlington National ...

From Newton to Sparta, Stanhope to Vernon and in between, here's our roundup of Memorial Day parades and events this weekend.

Discover how the first Memorial Day was organized by freed African Americans in Charleston, SC, in 1865 to honor Union ...

Memorial Day started as Decoration Day in 1868. Eugene’s historic cemetery helps keep its Civil War origins alive.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, ...