A day put aside to honor the sacrifices of the nation’s veterans, Memorial Day 2021 was particularly poignant a 12 months after many memorial cerem
A day put aside to honor the sacrifices of the nation’s veterans, Memorial Day 2021 was particularly poignant a 12 months after many memorial ceremonies — and lots of household journeys and barbecues — have been curtailed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Parades that had been canceled in 2020 have been again in 2021. Providers held on-line final 12 months resumed in particular person this 12 months. Vacation site visitors returned, as did seashore outings — at the least in elements of the nation not cursed with chilly, wet climate.
President Biden honored the fallen at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, delivering an emotional speech below a blue, sunlit sky only a day after the five-year anniversary of the demise of his son Beau, who had served in Iraq. “It will probably harm to recollect, however the harm is how we really feel, and the way we heal,” Mr. Biden mentioned after putting a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns. He referred to as on People to maintain the fallen members of the army of their minds. “We’re free as a result of they have been courageous,” he mentioned.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
A member of the army stands close to the Tomb of the Unknowns earlier than a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery.
Members of the army are mirrored within the Vietnam Veteran Memorial in Washington.
Beachgoers on South Seaside in Miami Seaside, Fla.
Kyle Watts, a vacationer from Ohio, makes use of a steel detector in Myrtle Seaside, S.C.
Veterans throughout a Memorial Day parade in Myrtle Seaside.
In Barnstable, Mass., a police honor guard remembers the city’s battle useless.