senior historian at Arlington National Cemetery. "Memorial Day is a solemn day, a day of mourning and remembrance," Finkelstein said. "We trace it to the Civil War, a conflict that tore our nation ...

Arlington National Cemetery honors the Army's 250th anniversary by celebrating its Revolutionary War connections.

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — 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 ...

The first memorial day wasn't called Memorial Day Decoration Day, May 30, 1868, was held at Arlington National Cemetery, which was just one of 74 national cemeteries established after the Civil War.