Rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.The first historical precedent that provided inspiration for Flowers of Remembrance Day occurred in the aftermath of the Civil War. In 1864, the Army began to bury the war dead on the Arlington property, which it had seized in 1861 for defensive purposes.

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A person wields a hammer while kneeling on the ground. A 25-member team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is in the Normandy region of France searching for three missing airmen, whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German antiaircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

 

The forensic

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People sift through dirt at an excavation site. A 25-member team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, is in the vicinity of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, searching for three missing airmen, whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German anti-aircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The

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A person spreads a tarp at an excavation site. A 25-member team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, is in the Normandy region of France, searching for three missing airmen, whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German anti-aircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Since there

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