As a New Yorker, it feels like a day of remembrance; as an American, it's a day of memorial.
It occurred to me that the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, also falls in this ninth month of September and is also named Yom Hazikaron, "A Day of Memorial".
Although we've passed the official day of memorial, I'd like to share some thoughts to carry forward on warm summer evenings as we sit comfortably beside the grill, lest we all too easily forget those we've lost.
It's held every year on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in Burlington, about 26 miles from St . Albans— the distance of a marathon.
IT was early afternoon on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, and the beer pong table had already cast its dark spell.
And in South Brooklyn on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, summer commenced at an event space known as the Bklyn Yard.
In an appearance on the "Today" show, broadcast from the boardwalk at Seaside Heights on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, the Governor refused to attribute Sandy to climate change.
The three days of memorials, beginning Wednesday, are creating security, logistics and protocol concerns usually associated with a presidential inauguration or the annual State of the Union speech.
He spoke on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., pinch-hitting for Senator Ted Kennedy, on the theme of service to our country.
On Friday of Memorial Day weekend last year, the airlines carried 2.1 million passengers and filled 87percentt of their seats; this year, the group projects carrying 2.2 million but filling 83.5percentt of the seats.
In Greenwich, where I arrived at the beach on a cloudy Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, three different town workers warned us we would have to pay $50, as if to give us a chance to back out.
