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US Vietnam War Commemoration hosting May ‘welcome home’ event in DC

The three-day event will take place on the National Mall.

By Meghann Myers

2 years ago

Tomb Sentinel Walks the Mat at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Public can lay flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for the first time in 100 years

The public will be able to walk up to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and lay flowers for the first time in nearly 100 years.

By Leila Barghouty

4 years ago

Monuments rise and fall at West Point and VMI amid racial reckoning

A series of updates to the commemorative landscape at West Point and VMI are the latest in the military's efforts to distance itself from its previous veneration of Confederate heritage.

By Davis Winkie

4 years ago

Soldiers who perished in 1962 on secret mission to Vietnam are memorialized

Nearly 60 years ago, dozens of soldiers assembled for a top secret mission to Vietnam. They never made it. Their airplane disappeared between Guam and the Philippines.

4 years ago

In a year of restrictions, virus changes Sept. 11, too

In a year when the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped countless American rituals, even the commemoration of 9/11 could not escape unchanged.

5 years ago

Pearl Harbor ceremony to mark end of World War II will be limited to local veterans

A Pearl Harbor ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II — possibly the last opportunity for many aging U.S. veterans to commemorate the day — will be limited to survivors of the war living in Hawaii because of coronavirus concerns

5 years ago