In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, ... The Confederate Memorial in Arlington, Va. April 12, 2012. Photo: ...

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...

Arlington’s Civil War Legacy Is Finally Laid to Rest A memorial tainted with Lost Cause mythology has at last been purged from the national cemetery. If only national memory were so easily resolved.

Iraq War veteran Edmundo Eugenio Martinez Jr. said the day has lost so much meaning that many Americans “conflate and mix up Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, July Fourth.” For him ...

What is Memorial Day and how has it evolved from its Civil War origins? A member of the Army visits Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 27, 2024, on Memorial Day.

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves with blooming flowers. FILE - A member of the Army visits ...

After nearly 100 years in an unmarked grave, a Rockford veteran is honored for his role in America’s bloodiest battle. On ...

Beneath sacred soil, a farm boy was first. Before 400,000 others, a farm boy was first. Preceding a host of other notables into the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery, a farm boy was ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend … ...

Dennis said Memorial Day’s potency diminished somewhat with the addition of Armistice Day, which marked World War I’s end on Nov. 11, 1918. Armistice Day became a national holiday by 1938 and ...

What are the origins of Memorial Day? The holiday's origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 ...

Maloney sent a copy of his compelling 51-page manuscript, “The Fallen Heroes of Arlington Heights in the Civil War,” to Veterans Memorial Committee of Arlington Heights Chairman Greg Padovani ...