Veterans Day commemorations continue across the United States:

 

 Veterans Day commemorations continue across the United States:

Saturday was the first, there will be three days of celebration of Veterans Day across the United States.
Holiday falls on a Sunday, and Monday Federal compliance. This is the first day of honoring men and women who served in uniform since the last U.S. troops from Iraq in December 2011.

This is also an opportunity to thank those who stormed the beaches during the Second World War - a population decreases rapidly with the majority of these former soldiers are now in the 80s and 90s.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, a steady stream of visitors arrived Saturday morning, that the names of 58,000 people on the wall were read on the speaker.

Some visitors took pictures, others have names engravings, and some memories left: leather jackets, flag, made of thick paper, photographs of young men and even a little snow globes with internal American Eagle.

Alfred A. Atwood, 65, Chattanooga, Tennessee, visiting the wall for the first time.

"I've just never been able to do," said Atwood, visit the memorial, which was completed in 1982.

Atwood, who later became a police inspector, said he knows many people on the wall, but one name, he wanted to find his friend on Saturday, Ronald L. Wright. The two grew up together, and when Atwood decided to join the Marines at 18 years there was no stopping Wright, Atwood.

Wright died in 1968, when he stepped on a mine, said Atwood, Wright and his mother always blamed for the death of his son. He had never been able to bring myself to visit the grave of his friend, he said.

On Saturday, he found the group name Wright 44E, line 60, and he ran his fingers over it, shaking his head.

"I'm still in the process of blocking. I want to go somewhere and sit down and think a minute, "he said, seeing the name of Wright. "All I can see when I hit play and his name was his mother's face told me that I was his son was killed."

A half-dozen women of all ages welded next to a pile of hand-handkerchiefs while frail white-haired man sat waiting for the opportunity to tell their war stories Saturday, tourists and veterans asked the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

The museum has a number of events planned to celebrate Veterans Day weekend.

Knitters gathered to celebrate the efforts of the 1940s to supply the back of the sock WWII troops and warm sweaters.

Nearby, Tom Blackie, 92, New Orleans, sitting at a table with two grainy black and white photographs of his younger self, one, standing at ease in uniform in 1942, and another at the edge of a motorcycle in 1944. Also on the table were pictures of the bridge on the river Merderet in Normandy - the bridge that he and his colleagues at the 82nd airborne army fought ensure the Normandy landings took place in 1944.

Blakey gnarled fingers to the landing card and said, holding the bridge was the key to keeping the German troops on the beaches of Utah and Omaha.

"If we allow them to go to Utah and Omaha beaches on these people would be in bad shape," he said.

Blakey regularly participates in a program of oral history museum, it has the opportunity.

"What could I do with my life now?" he said.

National Cemetery in Bourne, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, about 1,000 people, including Gold Star Mothers and Cubs met in crisp fall day in a short ceremony.
Then spread to plant 56,000 flags on the flat bottom of a tombstone in the cemetery, turning green landscape of the sea flying blue red and white.
Until last year, the cemetery does not allow flags and flag-bearer of the graves. All that has changed under pressure from Paul Monti Raynham, Massachusetts, whose son, Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was killed by the Taliban, while trying to save a comrade in Afghanistan in 2006. He received the Medal of Honor for his bravery and buried in Bourne.

Paul Monti led a brief ceremony Saturday, where the oath of allegiance was recited, Miss Massachusetts sang the national anthem and the dedication was read.

In the Mojave Desert in California, veterans stimulus Cross War Memorial, which was part of a legal battle 13 years in separation of church and state.

Sunday's ceremony Sunrise Rock follows the movement of the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the cross was unconstitutional because it was in the Mojave National. The Supreme Court intervened in 2010 and sent to the court to consider the land swap, which leads to a solution, which went Sunrise rock veterans group in exchange for five acres of private land. Henry Sandoz, who handled the original cross under the promise dies veteran of the First World War, will re-dedicate a new steel cross 7 feet on the same hill.Read More...

Veterans Day commemorations continue across the United States: