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Robert Mirto, Esq., was the Master of Ceremonies, and he and all of the honored guests kept their addresses short, so there were no medical emergencies and the parade stepped off earlier than in some past years. US Senator Richard Blumenthal, and First Selectman Jim Zeoli made brief comments, and two students from Orange Elementary Schools read short poems.
Veterans and their families gathered at Roselawn Memorial Park on Sunday to tend to loved ones' graves and take part in a Memorial Day service honoring the sacrifice of those who died serving in the military. Roselawn Memorial Park and the local Veterans of Foreign Wars work together every year to host the event.
On his world farewell tour at Japan, Obama went to deliver a speech at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station located at Iwakuni, Japan. Here he thanked and applauded everyone who served and placed their lives on the line.
Whether chilling on a beach or grilling out on a patio, Memorial Day is a perfect time to remember the sacrifice of our fallen soldiers with their stories of bravery. Today, I'll share some war stories with you that will hopefully encourage you to in turn share your own family's stories.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials have selected Brian Lin as the new resident inspector at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. The plant is operated by Exelon Nuclear.
President Tsai Ing-wen inspected two military bases in Eastern Taiwan on Sunday, her first ever trip in her capacity as the nation's commander in chief. The president boarded Air Force One for Eastern Taiwan where she inspected Hualien Air Base and the neighboring Jiashan Air Base, the island's primary eastern defense area.
The U.S. Coast Guard is working on plans on how it will try to free a freighter that ran aground in Whitefish Bay off Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Yaw says the Coast Guard on Sunday was continuing to monitor the safety of the crew of the Roger Blough and to monitor for any environmental problems.
Here's a positive move by Turkey, a country that often seems to be heading in the wrong direction: Despite Ankara's severe misgivings, it is allowing the U.S. military to fly daily bombing missions from here against the Islamic State - in support of a Syrian Kurdish militia called the YPG that Turkey regards as a terrorist threat. Turkey offered the Incirlik base last year after a dozen years of tepid military relations with the United States, its superpower ally.
Larry Frounfelkner of Vacaville salutes a tombstone of a U.S. veteran after planting an American flag at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, Saturday. Frounfelkner, a Vietnam veteran, attended the flag planting ceremony to honor his father and father-in-law, whom both served in the U.S. military.
Three current and former Navy officers were charged in documents unsealed Friday for their roles in a massive bribery and fraud scheme involving a Navy contractor. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy of the Southern District of California, Acting Director Dermot O'Reilly of the Department of Defense's Defense Criminal Investigative Service , Director Andrew Traver of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Director Anita Bales of Defense Contract Audit Agency made the announcement.
Our fight against ISIS is a truly 21st century war --fought partly in ice-cold computer rooms by troops who risk not bullets, but mental stress and tooth decay. One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1866, the town of Waterloo, NY, celebrated the first Memorial Day, remembering the fallen of the Civil War.
As a witness to the removal of fallen U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Army Chaplain Christopher John Antal can't recall a time when that solemn ceremony wasn't conducted without the presence of drones passing along the horizon. They were sleek and quiet, making a gentle humming noise as they flew over the flight lines - where aircraft can be parked and serviced - of the Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan, where he was stationed in 2012.
Lt. Gen. Lawrence D. Nicholson, U.S. Marine Corps Commanding General of III Marine Expeditionary Force, speaks during a press conference at the USMC Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan after a former Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a woman on the southern Japanese island.
The U.S. Coast Guard is opening seasonal air facilities in Michigan and Illinois to boost Lake Michigan search and rescue operations during the spring and summer months. Crews from the Detroit area operate Air Facility Muskegon while crews from Traverse City operate Air Facility Waukegan.
On May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives.
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a video showing Navy pilots being hoisted from the water after a crash off of North Carolina's coast . The Coast Guard reported that the crew of the commercial fishing vessel Pammy recovered all four pilots.
Colin Firth is taking the plunge for a new submarine thriller based on the real-life Kursk disaster in August, 2000. The British actor will join The Danish Girl star Matthias Schoenaerts in the film adaptation of the underwater tragedy, which occurred when a torpedo exploded onboard the K-141 Kursk, the pride of the Russian Navy.
As the country heads into the Memorial Day weekend, there are over 1.3 million U.S soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on active duty, and more than 150,000 of them are stationed in foreign countries. So far, more than 6,800 U.S. servicemen and women have died during the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and at least 52,000 more have been wounded.