Burial in a national cemetery was not initially seen as a means of honoring veterans and war dead. Instead, it was a way to ensure that service members whose families could not afford to bring ...

US President Donald Trump arrived to deliver remarks at the National Veterans Day Observance at the Memorial Amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on May 26, 2025.

Trump lays wreath at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day President Trump on Monday visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and delivered remarks at Arlington National Cemetery to ...

Yet at Arlington National Cemetery, where more than 400,000 have been laid to rest, Trump commemorated the sacrifice of U.S. service members and singled out several Gold Star families to tell the ...

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY − At 6:30 a.m., the scrape of manure shovels and the shuffling of horse hooves echoed through the red-brick stable at Fort Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment ...

Notably, the first National Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, celebration took place on May 30, 1868, at Arlington National Cemetery, where a crowd of 5,000 gathered to decorate the ...

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other countries, buried there since the 1860s.

President Trump was joined by fellow members of his administration during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, May 26, 2025.

Arlington National Cemetery is hallowed ground, a peaceful spot to remember those who died in the chaos of war and combat. Its 639 acres include the graves of more than 400,000 U.S. service ...

Angela Spraul and her daughter, Ava, 4, sit at the grave of her husband John Spraul, U.S. Navy, who died Feb. 28, 2013, at Section 60 on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery on May 25, 2015 ...