NFT: On this Memorial Day Weekend, remembering family & friends

and I'm sorry for your loss, 61.

I too am a veteran and served for 30 years and an now retired too, and so I fully understand and appreciate the brotherhood and feel of family.

This week on For the Record: Memorial Day, inside Dover.

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Thank. You.

Thank you all!

As our hearts break for those left behind in their grief, especially those too young to understand the finality of death.

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In Margraten, Netherlands and the honor the locals pay to our WWII veterans who liberated them.
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In Margraten, Netherlands and the honor the locals pay to our WWII veterans who liberated them. Americans gave their lives to defeat the Nazis. The Dutch have never forgotten. - ( New Window )

Thanks for posting this article. It is gratifying to read it. A very touching gesture.

when Americans honor the country's fallen soldiers.

'Falling on the last Monday in May, Memorial Day became a federal holiday in 1971. The holiday often is celebrated with parades, picnics, and just some general patriotism. It along with Labor Day serve as unofficial bookends to the "summer season."

'Interestingly enough, the exact origin of the holiday remains a hot topic of debate, with a number of locations around the U.S. taking credit for starting the tradition.

'Was it in Waterloo, New York, in 1866 that sparked nationwide celebrations? Or maybe Major Gen. John Logan's May 30, 1868, observance that kicked things off?

'Regardless of who celebrated it first, people have been honoring fallen soldiers in Memorial Day-like traditions for quite some time.

One of the earlier, lesser-known stories involving these types of traditions was that of Charleston, S.C., in 1865.'

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