The display uses about 2,250 amperes of Hoover Dam's hydroelectric power.

Separate orders in two states mark tributes spanning politics, emergency service, and decades of public life.

Tributes will be visible nationwide on one of the few occasions when the entire country observes a shared federal tradition.

American flags are lowered across Mississippi for Memorial Day. Here’s what May 25, 2026, honors and when they return to full staff.

A suspected vandal was caught on camera kicking American flags through an Orange County neighborhood on Memorial Day in a disturbing scene that sparked outrage across social media. The video posted by ...

Flags are lowered from sunrise until noon on Memorial Day under U.S. flag code.

Tens of thousands of American flags are on display on the Boston Common as part of the annual Memorial Day tradition.

One by one, across a reverent landscape, Tom Minalov places an American flag on veterans’ graves in St. Ambrose Catholic ...

I was honored this year to place a flag by the graves of my father-in-law, a neighbor and two other church members. Normally I don't walk that section of the cemetery, but I did this year. I ...

While some local directives are tied to individual losses, nationwide observances carry broader significance.

The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend honors the approximately 100 firefighters who die each year in the line of duty.