Alex Burgess gets emotional at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Monday, May 27, as he visits the grave of a friend who was killed in Iraq. People across the country paid tribute to fallen military service members throughout the Memorial Day weekend.
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Alex Burgess gets emotional at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Monday, May 27, as he visits the grave of a friend who was killed in Iraq. People across the country paid tribute to fallen military service members throughout the Memorial Day weekend.
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President Barack Obama greets people while visiting Arlington National Cemetery on May 27.
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President Barack Obama greets people while visiting Arlington National Cemetery on May 27.
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Obama delivers <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2013%2F05%2F27%2Fpolitics%2Fobama-arlington-speech-wreath%2Findex.html">Memorial Day remarks</a> at Arlington National Cemetery on May 27. "This time next year, we will mark the final Memorial Day of our war in Afghanistan," he said.
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Obama delivers Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on May 27. "This time next year, we will mark the final Memorial Day of our war in Afghanistan," he said.
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Crowds listen as Obama honors U.S. military service members on Memorial Day. He called Arlington National Cemetery "a monument to a common thread in the American character."
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Crowds listen as Obama honors U.S. military service members on Memorial Day. He called Arlington National Cemetery "a monument to a common thread in the American character."
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Obama lays a commemorative wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Obama lays a commemorative wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Friends and family gather at Arlington National Cemetery on May 27 to visit the grave site of <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2FSPECIALS%2Fwar.casualties%2Fmemorial.html%3FcampaignID%3DEF%26soldierID%3D91c5b3eb1cf37bf0cb7afb732fdcbb9b%26initialHometown%3DWayne%2C%2520PA">Army Capt. Ronald George Luce Jr</a>. He died in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Friends and family gather at Arlington National Cemetery on May 27 to visit the grave site of Army Capt. Ronald George Luce Jr. He died in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Flowers honor the memory of a veteran at the National World War II Memorial in Washington on May 27. More than 400,000 Americans died during the war.
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Flowers honor the memory of a veteran at the National World War II Memorial in Washington on May 27. More than 400,000 Americans died during the war.
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Desiree Neal visits the grave of her grandfather, Army Sgt. Lyle Johnson, with her daughter, Sophia, and her husband, Ryan, during a Memorial Day weekend service at the State Veterans Cemetery near Little Falls, Minnesota, on Sunday, May 26. Johnson was a Korean War veteran who died in 2011.
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Desiree Neal visits the grave of her grandfather, Army Sgt. Lyle Johnson, with her daughter, Sophia, and her husband, Ryan, during a Memorial Day weekend service at the State Veterans Cemetery near Little Falls, Minnesota, on Sunday, May 26. Johnson was a Korean War veteran who died in 2011.
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Korean War veteran Bob Pellow, 84, carries a flag during the ceremony at the State Veterans Cemetery near Little Falls on May 26.
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Korean War veteran Bob Pellow, 84, carries a flag during the ceremony at the State Veterans Cemetery near Little Falls on May 26.
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People make impressions of a name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington on May 26.
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People make impressions of a name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington on May 26.
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A group participates in a Memorial Day parade on May 26 in Waterbury, Connecticut.
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A group participates in a Memorial Day parade on May 26 in Waterbury, Connecticut.
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A couple dressed as Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln embrace while waiting for the Memorial Day parade in Waterbury to pass on May 26.
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A couple dressed as Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln embrace while waiting for the Memorial Day parade in Waterbury to pass on May 26.
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Members of the Mattatuck Drum Band, <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmattatuck.org%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">billed as the country's oldest fife and drum band</a>, warm up before joining the Memorial Day parade in Waterbury on May 26.
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Members of the Mattatuck Drum Band, billed as the country's oldest fife and drum band, warm up before joining the Memorial Day parade in Waterbury on May 26.
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Jim Cloyes salutes riders taking part in Rolling Thunder's "Ride to the Wall" on May 26 in Washington. Every Memorial Day weekend thousands of motorcyclists gather in the nation's capital and make their way to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Jim Cloyes salutes riders taking part in Rolling Thunder's "Ride to the Wall" on May 26 in Washington. Every Memorial Day weekend thousands of motorcyclists gather in the nation's capital and make their way to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Motorcyclists wave American flags during the Rolling Thunder event in Washington on May 26.
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Motorcyclists wave American flags during the Rolling Thunder event in Washington on May 26.
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Participants remember veterans during a Memorial Day weekend ceremony on May 26 in Williams Township, Pennsylvania.
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Participants remember veterans during a Memorial Day weekend ceremony on May 26 in Williams Township, Pennsylvania.
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Children warm up with their instruments before joining a Memorial Day parade May 26 in Waterbury, Connecticut.
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Children warm up with their instruments before joining a Memorial Day parade May 26 in Waterbury, Connecticut.
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Phillis LeSage, left, and Julie Foret play a game during a living history event in observance of Memorial Day at the Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery in Chalmette, Louisiana, on May 26.
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Phillis LeSage, left, and Julie Foret play a game during a living history event in observance of Memorial Day at the Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery in Chalmette, Louisiana, on May 26.
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Patricia Corral makes calas, deep-fried rice cakes that were a popular breakfast dish in New Orleans dating back to the 1800s, during the living history event May 26 in Chalmette.
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Patricia Corral makes calas, deep-fried rice cakes that were a popular breakfast dish in New Orleans dating back to the 1800s, during the living history event May 26 in Chalmette.
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Boy Scout Patrick Mach places an American flag on a veteran's grave in Moore, Oklahoma, on Saturday, May 25. The annual project took place in Moore Cemetery, which is next to a neighborhood that the May 20 tornado heavily damaged.
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Boy Scout Patrick Mach places an American flag on a veteran's grave in Moore, Oklahoma, on Saturday, May 25. The annual project took place in Moore Cemetery, which is next to a neighborhood that the May 20 tornado heavily damaged.
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James Venable, 82, carries flags to place on veterans' graves at Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 25.
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James Venable, 82, carries flags to place on veterans' graves at Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 25.
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Jahvanni Gifford, 4, walks through Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City on May 25.
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Jahvanni Gifford, 4, walks through Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City on May 25.
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