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Memorial Day: Veterans Affairs will host nationwide ceremonies at more than 130 cemeteries
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Memorial Day: Veterans Affairs will host nationwide ceremonies at more than 130 cemeteries
The Department of Veterans Affairs will host Memorial Day ceremonies at more than 130 cemeteries across the country to honor the service members who lost their lives defending the United States.
These events will include wreath-laying ceremonies, commemorative speeches, music, a moment of silence, and the playing of Taps.
"This Memorial Day weekend, we encourage Veterans and all Americans to join us as we remember and honor our nation's fallen heroes," Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said. "We are forever indebted to the service members who gave their lives in service to our country, and we will never forget their sacrifice."
McDonough will speak at the ceremony at New York State Veterans Cemetery Finger Lakes on Monday. The community there is commonly recognized as the birthplace of Memorial Day.
Veterans Affairs chief of staff Kimberly Jackson will speak at Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday, while Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Tanya Bradsher will speak at the Baltimore National Cemetery on May 30.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/memorial-day-veterans-affairs-will-host-nationwide-ceremonies-at-more-than-130-cemeteries/ar-BB1mYbCR?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Bigun:
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mystery-ak:
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery...outside of St. Louis..
My dad and now my mother are buried here.....when my siblings were young we would go to Jefferson Barracks on Memorial Day..Scott AF Base in Il would send a plane loaded with flowers and they would drop them all over the cemetery...my brothers and sisters would gather as many as we could to put them on my dad's grave.. :crying:
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