As the last Monday in May arrives, communities across the United States come together to commemorate Memorial Day, an occasion to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military.

While Memorial Day was this past Monday, today marks what was once an important, similar holiday known as Decoration Day and it’s still being honored in northeast Iowa. The Bay Church and Cemetery ...

Earlier this summer at the Winningham family cemetery in Pickett County, Tennessee, Carolyn Massiongale conducted a master class for her three granddaughters. The tools at hand were a garden hoe, rake ...

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 ...

Greetings, everyone, and thank you for watching. Originally called Decoration Day, from the early tradition of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, Memorial Day is a day of remembrance ...

At half-past one on a sunny Sunday afternoon, May 30, 1869, the tolling of the bell in the old Market Hall alerted a large and growing crowd of Syracusans to the commencement of the city’s first ...

Memorial Day was first observed in 1868 as “Decoration Day.” The Pioneer Cemetery holds 145 Civil War veterans’ graves. Observances are held across Lane County, with one of Oregon’s oldest in Eugene.