05/25/2026
🇺🇸Memorial Day
Each Memorial Day, we pause to remember those who gave their lives in service to our country.
Their names remain in our cemeteries, on our memorials, in our communities, and in the lives shaped by their absence.
Some of those names belong to people whose stories feel distant to us now. Others belong to losses still carried in living memory. Memorial Day brings us together in remembrance and reminds us that behind every name was a person - someone with places they meant to return to and a future they expected to live.
That is why memorialization and places of remembrance exist.
Not simply to preserve the past, but to create places where memory can endure. Places that ask us to pause and remember that every name belonged to a real person, someone who was known, loved, and whose absence is still felt.
And in remembering people in that way, we begin to recognize that their influence extends far beyond those places. We find traces of them in ourselves and in the world around us, in the values carried forward, in the communities they helped shape, and in the understanding that much of what we have today was shaped by people who never had the chance to see it.
Today, we remember and honor those who gave their lives in service to the United States of America.🇺🇸
