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Veteran’s Memorial Road Race

Veteran’s Memorial Road Race “The only USA Track & Field-certified 11K running in American that honors our veterans (past, present and future) on their national day of recognition – VETERANS...

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Explore More About Memorial Day

Explore More About Memorial Day Learning Links       Lesson Plans   Memorial Day Learning Links   Memorials & Casualty Files This is a huge list of Memorial sites around the world (complete with...

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The Story of the Buddy Poppy

The Story of the Symbolic Poppy The poppy seed can lie for years before it spouts nodding buds and then blooms four crumpled petals. It is a vivid mix between red and orange in color. These simple...

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Gettysburg Welcomes Wounded Soldiers At Memorial Day Parade

Soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan from Walter Reed Medical Center are among the thousands in Gettysburg to attend the annual Memorial Day Parade, the nation’s oldest, on May 25th. Photo by...

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National Moment of Remembrance

The National Moment of Remembrance, established by Congress, asks Americans wherever they are at 3 p.m., local time, on Memorial Day to pause in an act of national unity (duration: one minute).The...

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The Poppy Flower and Memorial Day

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: In Flanders Fields By John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The...

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Quiet Sacrifice – Memorial Day

Ida Ayres never served a day in the armed forces, but she knows a thing or two about the sacrifices of war. When we think of war and conflict, we think of the men and women who put themselves in...

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Special Delivery: Letters to Our Troops

Make a Soldier’s Day Those who haven’t been overseas and away from their family and friends for a lengthy period of time cannot understand completely how it feels. During the holidays it gets even...

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The Story of Taps

The Story of Taps Image courtesy of the US Army Band 2009 The 24-note bugle call known as “taps” is thought to be a revision of a French bugle signal, called “tattoo,” that notified soldiers to cease...

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Waterloo – Official Birthplace of Memorial Day

The Birthplace of Memorial Day Photo collage by Jared Moore under a Creative Commons 2.0 License   Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans —...

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Poem for a Veteran

Veterans Day Memorial Flag DetailU.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sara Bauer, 388th CMS, holds a bunch of American flags during a volunteer opportunity at the Veterans Memorial Park, Bluffdale, Utah, Nov. 9,...

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PTSD Memorial Song – Hometown Battlefield

Along with the soldiers who lost their lives overseas, please keep in your thoughts and prayers the ones who lost their way overseas, and eventually lost their lives here at home. This amazing song by...

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