Memorial Day Weekend 2012
It's the official start of Summer....but first let's remember.
Memorial Day dates to 1868 and the aftermath of America's horrible Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy. Once Known as Decoration Day, the commemoration saw the placing of flowers on the graves of the fallen soldiers from North and South.
Today Memorial Day honors the fallen in all the wars and conflicts we have fought in from the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and more recently Iraq and Afghanistan.
The monument pictured here, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on New York's Riverside Drive offers a special honor to those who served and fell. Built and innagurated on Memorial Day 1902, the collonade Beaux Arts monument is a beautiful but often overlooked site on the Upper West Side overlooking the Hudson River.
And since we are speaking about sailors and the U.S. Navy, it's Fleet Week in New York, the annual military review of the U.S. and various allied navies. U.S. ,
British, Canadian, and Japanese surface ships are participating in the event as are the famed Tall Ships--the training vessel Sail Ships from a number of navies including France and Spain.
Honor Memorial Day and Remember the Fallen.
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