Memorial Day

VA to give veterans more ways to leave digital legacy when they’re gone

The Veterans Legacy Memorial allows surviving friends and family members to share memories of a veteran in their life who passed.

Veterans Affairs

Air Force/Senior Airman Karla Parra

Memorial Day look at the undercounted veterans who die by suicide from the battlefield

Veterans Affairs

Nah, debt default won’t stop Social Security checks

Federal Report

Visitors pause to look for names on the wall at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial early in the morning on Memorial Day in Washington, Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Memorial Day memories

Federal Report

(AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Bob Workman of Boston, a retired Marine Gunnery Sgt., and past commander of the Boston Police VFW, replaces flags at veteran's graves ahead of Memorial Day on Thursday, May 27, 2021, in the Fairview Cemetery in Boston. After more than a year of isolation, American veterans are embracing plans for a more traditional Memorial Day. After more than a year of isolation, military veterans say wreath-laying ceremonies, barbecues at local vets halls and other familiar traditions are a welcome chance for them to reconnect with fellow service members and renew solemn traditions honoring the nation's war dead. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

It’s Memorial Day, not a holiday!

Federal Report

Retired U.S.Army veteran Bill MacCully walks among flag-covered graves in the Veterans Cemetery of Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Memorial Day comes yearly, yet recalls life’s unpredictability

Federal Report

(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Supporters line the street as motorcyclists participate in the 30th anniversary of the Rolling Thunder 'Ride for Freedom' demonstration in Washington, Sunday, May 28, 2017. Rolling Thunder seeks to bring full accountability for all U.S. prisoners of war and missing in action (POW/MIA) soldiers. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Pentagon declines permit for Rolling Thunder event to use parking lot

Federal Newscast

this May 22, 2020 photo, a U.S. flag decorates a veteran's grave at Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo, Ala. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the government has banned public ceremonies and the mass placement of flags on graves at the country's 142 national cemeteries. With almost 4.9 million people interred in the cemeteries, thousands would attend memorial events and help mark graves with flags during a typical Memorial Day weekend. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Gallery: Armed services pay tribute on a very different Memorial Day

Defense

birthday cake with lit candles for a century, one hundredth birthday

CSRS is now old enough for a Smucker’s jar

Federal Report

Rolling Thunder 2019, motorcycles, bikers

My immersion in Rolling Thunder 2019

Tom Temin Commentary

The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va. is silhouetted against daybreak in the Washington, D.C. area Saturday morning May 25, 2019 at the outset of the Memorial Day weekend holiday. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Federal agencies honor our fallen on Memorial Day

Workforce

It’s Memorial Day, not a holiday!

While it is okay to have fun, we should also recall that it is a date to honor those who have served and died for their country — our country.

Mike Causey

Members of the Army 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, place flags at the headstone of fallen military members during its annual Flags In ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, May 24, 2018, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

How to keep the memory in Memorial Day

Even if you don’t know a soul buried in Arlington, you’ll feel they’re yours.

Tom Temin Commentary

Rapid-fire firing plan: Now what?

Federal Report

In the news business the best way to bury a story is to release or leak it on the Friday afternoon before a major national holiday. Such was the case this Memorial Day weekend when three executive orders designed to whip the bureaucracy in shape were issued Friday afternoon.