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May 27, 2013: Cadet Lt. Col. Adrian Carrasco raises an American flag during the Commemorate Air Force Memorial Day ceremony at the CAF Airpower Museum in Midland, Texas.![Memorial_Day_Angu__5_660]()
May 27, 2013: Aidan Lyle, 8, runs among 7,000 American flags on display outside the Long Center in Austin, Texas, on Memorial Day. The flags are in honor of the fallen veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The display was organized by Operation Honor Our Heroes, an organization that was founded by Nancy Glass after her friend MSG Robert M. Horrigan was killed in Iraq in 2005.![CORRECTION_Memorial_D_660]()
May 27, 2013: Sea Cadet Andrew Culp, 13, cleans a war memorial during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Mount Soledad Veteran's Memorial in La Jolla, Calif. The ceremony honored Glen A. Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were Navy Seals and were killed during the attacks on the U.S. Diplomatic Compound in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.![Memorial_Day_Angu__3_660]()
May 27, 2013: Ronald Nakonieczny, second from right, bows his head during the invocation at the start of the Memorial Day ceremony in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.![Memorial_Day_Angu__4_660]()
May 27, 2013: Jim Shepperd salutes alongside the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 889 color guard as taps is played during the Memorial Day ceremony at Independence Point in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.![memorial7]()
May 27, 2013: Seaman Daniel Odoi of the Navy Operational Support Center of New York City presents the American flag during a Memorial Day wreath laying at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island.![Memorial_Day_Arlingto__1_660]()
May 27, 2013: A soldier places roses on grave stones in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in Arlington, Va. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are buried in Section 60.![Memorial_Day_Arlingto_660]()
May 27, 2013: Deiniah Stewart places a rose at the grave site of a loved one at Section 60 on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are buried in Section 60.![Memorial_Day_Angu__1_660]()
May 27, 2013: Carlos Cruz, right with his son Gabrielle, 11, from the Los Angeles section of Sylmar, arrive to help straighten flags at the headstones of fallen soldiers during the Memorial Day commemoration at the the Los Angeles National Cemetery.![memorial6]()
May 27, 2013: President Barack Obama greets visitors of Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in Arlington, Va.![memorial8]()
May 27, 2013: President Barack Obama, center, participates in the wreathlaying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns with Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, left, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.![memorial9]()
May 27, 2013: Marine Staff Sgt. Travis Hassell, center, and his son Issac show off Francis Slate's, left, Honorable Discharge Card from the U.S. Army Dec. 3, 1945, as they wait for President Barack Obama to deliver his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.![memorial1]()
May 26, 2013: A veteran looks at the names of those who died etched into the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday.![memorial2]()
May 26, 2013: A couple photograph themselves amid a sea of flags on Boston Common in Boston. The flags were placed by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund in memory of every fallen Massachusetts service member from the Civil War to the present.![memorial3]()
May 26, 2013: Owen Laster, 6, carries a bouquet of flowers to be placed at one of his "great grandpa's" headstones at Fort Richardson National Cemetery in Anchorage, Alaska.![memorial4]()
May 26, 2013: Korean War veteran Bob Pellow, 84, a flag bearer, puts his hat back on after strong winds knocked it off during Memorial Day ceremonies at the State Veterans Cemetery in Little Falls, Minn.![memorial5]()
May 26, 2013: Ryan Neal, wife Desiree and daughter Sophia pay a visit to deceased Korean War Purple Heart decorated Army Sgt. Lyle Johnson, who passed away in 2011, during the Memorial Day Service at the State Veterans Cemetery in Little Falls, Minn.![Memorial_Day_Angu__2_660]()
May 25, 2013: A'Christian D. Phillips, 3, helps place flags on headstones at Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville, La. A'Christian has a grandfather, a grand-uncle, and four great-grandfathers buried in the cemetery.Americans honor fallen service members on Memorial Day
Americans gather to honor those who served their country. People visited war memorials, laid flowers on the graves of loved ones lost, and held parades to pay tribute to the fallen.
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- Americans honor fallen service members on Memorial Day
