Kennedy's “Prayer for Peace" on Memorial Day 1962 ... has hosted a remembrance ceremony every year on Memorial Day. Fallen soldiers are honored with flags at their gravesites, and a wreath ...

While many consider Memorial Day to be the unofficial start ... In the years following, Americans paid tribute to soldiers by decorating their graves and saying prayers, according to the History ...

A bell tolled 68 times Sunday morning in the cemetery at St. John’s Lutheran Church south of Cedar Mills. Each ring during a solemn Memorial Day service memorialized a Meeker or McLeod ...