On the first Decoration Day, 20,000 graves at Arlington Cemetery were decorated, and future President James Garfield gave a speech, the History Channel reports. Following World War I, Memorial Day ...

D.C.; the National Memorial Day Concert, and a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Memorial Day was officially established as a federal holiday in 1971, but the tradition of honoring fallen ...

Arlington National Cemetery has begun wiping from its website histories highlighting Black, Hispanic and women veterans. The ...