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“You can easily say that, at an American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) cemetery, every day is Memorial Day,” Timothy Nosul, chief of External Affairs for American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon Monday.

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Actor Gary Sinise appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to discuss the impact of one of his most famous roles on his work as the founder of the Gary Sinise Foundation, which has been helping military service members and their families since 2011.

The wounded warrior campaigning for the Republican nomination for the House seat representing Florida’s 18th congressional district told Breitbart News what Memorial Day means to him.

LOS ANGELES — Volunteers rushed Sunday to clean, repaint and restore a Vietnam memorial in Venice that had been tagged with graffiti late last week, after a veteran’s appeal that was reported by Breitbart News and other outlets on Sunday morning.

As the nation prepares to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day 2016, POLITICO takes a look back at a year inside our nation’s cemetery.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Sunday to Rolling Thunder, an organization of bikers who honor American soldiers who are missing in action, on Memorial Day weekend.

Being deployed in Afghanistan did not stop First Lt. Andrew Yacovone and First Lt. Justin Wright of the band Interstate 10 from releasing a music video for their Memorial Day tribute song, “I’m Gonna Miss You.”

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to be in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to attend the Memorial Day event with Rolling Thunder.

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama discussed Memorial Day, and that “I have no more solemn obligation than leading our men and women in uniform.” Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. Right now, there are American troops serving in harm’s way and

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) discussed Memorial Day during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hi, I’m Joni Ernst and I have the honor of serving the great state of Iowa in the United States Senate.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, made a surprise appearance to stump for Donald Trump at his San Diego rally leading into Memorial Day weekend. She slammed President Obama for “another U.S. apology lap” to Vietnam.

Arlington National Cemetery historian Chris Warren joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday with a timely review of Arlington’s history for Memorial Day.

John Bassett III, chairman of the Vaughan-Bassett furniture company, joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday to talk about his experience visiting Normandy, as chronicled in his book Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home.

Complaints from what has been described as a “vocal minority” prompted local government officials in a Georgia town to temporarily remove a Memorial Day display from public property that featured handmade crosses honoring service members killed in America’s wars.

With Memorial Day comes the touching annual tradition of soldiers placing hundreds of thousands of American flags on tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery.

A young man in Ohio has become a local hero after a picture of him lifting an American flag off the ground has got viral on social media.

As Democratic Party leaders struggle to end their increasingly vitriolic presidential primary campaign, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is winning concessions in hopes he’ll tone down the rhetoric.

As part of the Memorial Day commemoration, Breitbart News Daily asked the U.S. Navy officers of the USS Bataan (LHD-5) in New York for Fleet Week for their thoughts on the New Greatest Generation, the outstanding class of military men and women who came of age after the 9/11 attacks.

Broadcasting live from the flight deck of the USS Bataan in New York for Fleet Week, SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon had the honor of interviewing Captain John “J.C.” Carter for Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.

TEL AVIV – “We will not give up our hope to achieve peace with our enemies- But first we will achieve peace with ourselves,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a speech in Jerusalem on Tuesday in memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers.

Apparently feeling intellectual, The Washington Post sports department decided to mark Memorial Day this year by pondering a deep thought. “Military tributes at baseball games: True honors or hollow gestures?”

Bomb threats were made against five different aircraft, from five different airlines, on flights either originating or landing in the United States on Tuesday. Officials say all five of the threats were “non-credible,” part of a surge in hoax bomb threats in progress since Memorial Day.

A teenage boy stole nearly $500 from two war veterans this Memorial Day weekend. Harvey Krasner, 90, and Gerry Geisler, 79, were raising money for veterans’ organizations in front of a Rancho Mirage, California, grocery store, when the incident occurred.

Bruce Willis spent Memorial Day honoring America’s injured and fallen heroes alongside the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) in New York.

Following a Memorial Day Weekend during which 12 people shot and killed and 43 more were wounded, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said a large part of the solution to the problem is more gun control.

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson attended a Memorial Day Veterans March in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina over the holiday weekend, talking with veterans and meeting voters.

Strong rip currents proved too powerful for 10 T-shirt wearing beachgoers in Newport Beach waters this Memorial Day as they slipped out to sea–rescued only by a team of watchful lifeguards.

Clothing retailer PacSun removed a controversial upside-down American flag T-shirt from its stores after receiving massive consumer backlash on Memorial Day.

While millions of Americans spent Memorial Day weekend honoring those who died fighting for their country, Lena Dunham observed the national holiday by posting a lingerie photograph and joking it would make a great dinner ensemble because she is “free.”

Over the Memorial Day Weekend in heavily gun controlled Chicago, 12 persons were killed and “at least” 43 were wounded in shootings across the city.

A man whose suspicious vehicle triggered a scare on Capitol Hill on Monday has apologized for parking so close to a Memorial Day concert event with a car full of propane gas and a pressure cooker. Israel Shimeles told NBC 4 Washington that the suspicious items were taken from his food truck, and that it was “stupid” of him not to realize that police would be immediately alarmed by a car with those contents parked so close to a large holiday gathering.

ARLINGTON, Virginia– This year’s Memorial Day in Washington, DC was marked by warm temperatures and a cloudless sky. Thousands of Americans flocked to Arlington National Cemetery to pay their respects to the nearly 400,000 servicemen and women buried here.

Hundreds gathered at Fort Rosecrans in San Diego this Memorial Day to honor those brave service members fallen in the line of service to the citizens of these United States.

Clothing retailer PacSun is facing massive customer backlash on Memorial Day for selling a T-shirt featuring an upside-down black-and-white flag. Angry customers have flooded the company’s social media pages to decry the “disrespectful” A$AP Worldwide T-Shirt, which was designed in

During Memorial Day Services Monday, President Obama reminded everyone present that he had successfully ended the war in Afghanistan.