According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 140,000 veterans took their own lives between 2001 and 2022 — well over 6,000 veterans every year, or an average of more than 17 each day.

It asks all Americans to pause at 3 p.m. local time on Memorial Day each year to remember the dead. Veterans Day. When it is: Nov. 11 every year. Its original name: Armistice Day.

As generations pass, veterans might otherwise be lost to history without dedicated Americans who continue to remember their sacrifice. We should be a part of that important effort in some way.

Memorial Day includes a “National Moment of Remembrance,” when people are encouraged to pause wherever they are at 3 p.m. for a moment of reflection. Veterans Day on the other hand is ...

Laguna Woods residents bow their heads in remembrance of fallen veterans during the opening of the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Laguna Woods Village Performing Arts Center on Monday, May 26 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The Bakersfield community came together at a local senior center to honor fallen veterans with a Memorial Day ceremony filled with remembrance, stories, and support ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — On Monday, in honor of Memorial Day, the Gurtler Brothers Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 420 held their annual Veterans remembrance ceremony in Congress Park to remember ...

From “Decoration Day” to Memorial Day In 1868, General John A. Logan, leader of a Union veterans’ group, called for a national day of remembrance for those who died during the Civil War ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Memorial Day is approaching and amid the holiday sales and long weekend, local veterans are hoping people remember the real meaning behind Memorial Day.

The casualties aren’t only those who died in the wars themselves. Suicides of military veterans have risen in recent years. As of 2021, more than 30,000 veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq had ...

WATCH: Memorial Day remembrance at South Florida National Cemetery. ... “Folks that are here want to remember veterans and say thank you for making sure we have a free America,” he stated, ...