As they sat in their living room, heavy with memorials, photos and grief, Mr. and Mrs. Walters said that Don's hair had actually been reddish-blond, he had been injured in the leg, and he had smoked.
The continuing deaths in Iraq added a heavy feel to Memorial Day observances across the country, from sun-blessed Ventura, a coastal town 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, to the rain-sodden East Coast.
Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive.
With the musical openings "Soul Doctor," "Let It Be" and "Forever Tango" failing to attract big audiences, and several theaters sitting empty, Broadway had 8 percent fewer patrons during the tourist-heavy period from Memorial Day to Labor Day than in 2012, according to an analysis of data supplied by theater producers.
Thousands gathered under heavy rain near the memorial's parade ground on Wednesday to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the end of the first world war, in which about 62,000 Australians were killed and a further 156,000 injured or taken prisoner.
Also proposed are $500 million for a new bus terminal near the planned memorial, to handle the heavy tourist traffic that is expected downtown.
Six people drowned after a boat taking them to a genocide memorial service capsized Wednesday in heavy winds on Lake Kivu off the coast of Rwanda.
On Friday evening, hundreds of people gathered under heavy security at Cal State San Bernardino for the largest memorial gathering of the day.
Outside the Lane Bryant store, a stream of residents arrived through rain and a heavy fog to leave flowers at a makeshift memorial.
The heavy losses deeply affected many directly, and war memorials were built all over the country as people sought to remember those that had been killed.
