Memorial Day in America - May 27, 2021

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1. 0:00Memorial Day is a national holiday observed in the United States on the last Monday in May.
2. 0:09This year, Memorial Day is observed on May 31.
3. 0:15It is the day when Americans honor the women and men who have died fighting in America's wars.
4. 0:24For most Americans, however, it is the unofficial start of summer.
5. 0:29Carol Everhart is president of the Rehoboth Beach Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce.
6. 0:38The organization often refers to the towns in Delaware as the nation's summer capital,
7. 0:46since people from Washington, D.C.
8. 0:49will likely spend the summer along their beaches.
9. 0:55Everhart said, we expect very, very high visits this summer.
10. 1:02She pointed out that some could not wait to start their summer vacation after the year-long pandemic.
11. 1:12People, she said, have visited the Delaware coasts as early as January,
12. 1:19shortly after the start of the COVID -19 vaccination program.
13. 1:26In 2019, the Delaware beaches had nearly 8 million summer visitors.
14. 1:33With vaccination and without cloth face coverings or social distancing,
15. 1:40Everhart said she expects to have as many as 9 million visitors this year.
16. 1:48Back in the nation's capital of Washington,
17. 1:52D.C., Memorial Day tradition continues with the observance
18. 1:57at Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River.
19. 2:04It is the most famous burial place in America.
20. 2:09Before the pandemic, more than four million people visited the cemetery every year.
21. 2:17The tradition began on May 30, 1868,
22. 2:23when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers in the cemetery.
23. 2:32It was called Decoration Day back then.
24. 2:35Since 1948,
25. 2:38on the Thursday before Memorial Day,
26. 2:42soldiers from the 3rd U.S.
27. 2:45Infantry, the Old Guard, have placed small American flags in front
28. 2:52of every headstone in the cemetery.
29. 2:57Lines of simple white headstones mark the soldiers' graves.
30. 3:03But the 80 -hectare cemetery also serves as a burial place for people
31. 3:11of national and historical importance.
32. 3:16Two presidents are buried there.
33. 3:20William Howard Taft in 1930 and John F.
34. 3:26Kennedy in 1963.
35. 3:283. Other famous people buried
36. 3:31at the cemetery include world champion boxer Joe Lewis,
37. 3:39North Pole explorer Robert E.
38. 3:42Perry, and the seven astronauts who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
39. 3:52Nearly four thousand former slaves are also buried at Arlington.
40. 3:59One of them is James Parks.
41. 4:02He dug the first graves in the cemetery.
42. 4:07The best-known memorial in the nation's capital, is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,
43. 4:15which opened in 1982.
44. 4:19In 1980, a group of former soldiers announced a competition to design a memorial.
45. 4:28The winner was Maya Lin, a 21 -year-old student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
46. 4:38Lynn designed a memorial, formed by two walls of black stone, about seventy-six meters long.
47. 4:49The walls meet to form a V.
48. 4:52The names of more More than 58 ,000 Americans,
49. 4:58killed or declared missing in action, are cut into the stone.
50. 5:06Almost any time of day you can see people looking for the name of a family member or friend
51. 5:14who died in the war.
52. 5:16Once they find the name,
53. 5:19many rub a pencil on paper over the letters to copy it.
54. 5:27Many people leave remembrances at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
55. 5:35After the success of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,
56. 5:40Congress approved a memorial to the Korean War veterans, which opened in July of 1995.
57. 5:51The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1953.
58. 5:59The memorial honors those who died.
59. 6:03It also honors those who survived.
60. 6:08The Korean War has been called the Last Foot Soldiers War.
61. 6:15The memorial includes a group of nineteen statues of soldiers.
62. 6:22People who drive along a road near the memorial sometimes think the statues are
63. 6:31real soldiers. The
64. 6:34Women in Military Service for America memorial opened in 1997.
65. 6:43The memorial is near the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery.
66. 6:49It recognizes the service of all the women who have taken part in the nation's wars.
67. 6:57About two million women have served, or currently serve, in the armed forces.
68. 7:08One of the lesser-known memorials on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
69. 7:14is often called the Temple.
70. 7:18The round stone structure honors people from the District of Columbia who died in World War I.
71. 7:28The war was fought from 1914 to 1918.
72. 7:34The memorial was completed in 1931.
73. 7:40It is the only District of Columbia memorial on the National Mall.
74. 7:46Between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington monument on the National Mall is the World War II Memorial.
75. 7:57The United States entered the war after Japan bombed the Navy Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
76. 8:06on December 7, 1941.
77. 8:10Sixteen million men and women served in the American military between 1941
78. 8:18and 1945.
79. 8:22More than 400 ,000 died.
80. 8:26The World War II Memorial is built of bronze and granite.
81. 8:34In the center, at ground level, is a round pool of water.
82. 8:40Except in very cold weather, water shoots from a circle of fountains in the middle.
83. 8:48When the sun is just right,
84. 8:51rainbows of color dance in the air.
85. 8:5656 stone pillars rise around the pool.
86. 9:00They represent each of the American states and territories plus the District of Columbia
87. 9:08at the time of the war.
88. 9:11On two tall arches appear the names of where the fighting took place.
89. 9:18One says Atlantic, the other says Pacific.
90. 9:22There are not yet memorials for soldiers who died in America's most recent wars
91. 9:30in Iraq and Afghanistan.
92. 9:35The soldiers are buried in section 60 of Arlington Cemetery.
93. 9:42The section is often called The Saddest Place in America.
94. 9:47On Memorial Day, Americans will stop for one minute at three o 'clock local time
95. 9:54for the National Moment of Remembrance to honor the soldiers who have died
96. 10:02in service to the country, no matter what wars they served in.
97. 10:09I'm Anna Mateo.
98. 10:11And I'm Mario Ritter, Jr.