Memorial Day is not just a date on a calendar

“Memorial Day is not just a date on a calendar. It’s a sacred pause.”
Memorial Day is a special day to honor our nation’s fallen in solemn remembrance and pay tribute to those buried or memorialized at our 26 cemeteries and 31 memorials around the world.
Today, we pause and pay honor to those who laid down their lives to ensure our collective freedom from tyranny and to preserve American liberties and way of life.
Each and every day, ABMC staff throughout the world honor America’s fallen service members overseas and continue to share the stories of service and sacrifice of those we honor and memorialize. Memorial Day is a day when we join with our partners to collectively remember.
Thank you to all our partners for supporting our ceremonies and remembering our fallen.
🎥 Memorial Day ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
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The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) operates and maintains 26 cemeteries and 31 federal memorials, monuments, and commemorative plaques in 17 countries throughout the world, including the United States. Since March 4, 1923, ABMC’s sacred mission remains to honor the service, achievements, and sacrifice of more than 200,000 U.S. service members buried and memorialized at our sites.
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[@Francecombattante1944-w7s]

I am proud.
Yesterday I stood in front of these graves at the US military cemetery in colleville-sur-mer, just above Omaha. ❤

[@jgonzalez101]

May we always remember and commemorate our Fallen Serviceen and women who have given their "Full Measure of Devotion" to us, our country and at times, others suffering under tyrannical oppression!❤🙏🇺🇸

[@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423]

Amen, and thank you for putting this together ABM. Shall we never forget. 🎗🇺🇸

[@briseyk1]

Thank you. The cemetery at Pirbright does you proud

[@El.Duder-ino]

Dedication and care put into these cemeteries and memorial sites is spectacular and exemplary.