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Cullen Crowley, the son of former US Representative Joe Crowley, will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Just a few weeks ago, standing on a bluff overlooking Omaha, the wide beach, just as Dad had described, lay below.
Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...
Cullen Crowley will rest with the nation's heroes. Cullen, a Marine who lost his battle with cancer on Memorial weekend, will ...
The Gladbrook American Legion and Auxiliary and Lincoln AMVETS hosted the annual Memorial Day Services this past Monday at 15 ...
Decoration Day was first officially celebrated in 1868, though its origins can be traced back even further to a number of ...
James A. Garfield, May 30, 1868, Arlington National Cemetery Originally called Decoration Day, from the early tradition of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, Memorial Day is a day ...
More than a half century after Americans began decorating the graves of those who died during the Civil War, the annual ...
Over Memorial Day weekend, thousands gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the fallen through tributes like “Flags In” and the Flowers of Remembrance ceremony. Marking 250 years since ...
After the bloodiest war in U.S. history, an enlisted soldier in the Union Army was assigned to recover war dead from Southern battlefields. Brevet Lt.-Col. Edmund B. Whitman mapped out ...
President Donald Trump on Monday marked Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and delivering remarks.
Monday, we celebrated Memorial Day. Originally called, Decoration Day, this day was first set aside in 1868 to remember Civil ...