The crowd gathered at the two-year-old Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, draped with garlands of evergreens for the event. In the heat and humidity of a sunny day, Irvine delivered 112 lines. And the ...

C.G. Mitchell (his friends call him Carl) of St. Petersburg has seen a lot in his 81 years.

John McCrae, the author of "In Flanders Fields," wrote the poem after attending the funeral of a fellow soldier who died in battle in Belgium.It was first published in England's Punch magazine in ...

A Memorial Day poem in the Atlantic Monthly, 149 years ago. ... Moral Risk and the Modern Military,” by Phil Klay, author of the justly celebrated novel of the Iraq war Redeployment.

12 Poems You Can Post On Memorial Day This Year To Honor The Holiday. by Jessica Booth. May 24, 2018. Leon Neal/Getty Images News/Getty Images.

In 2017, seven states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia – chose to also celebrate some form of Confederate Memorial Day.