As unpatriotic as it might sound, sending students to school on Memorial Day can be blamed on Old Man Winter. Schools officials in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro had to alter school schedules to make up for too many snow days taken this year,
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Memorial Day may be spent having beach parties and barbecues, but many also take time to remember the reason for this national holiday. A number of celebrities — Justin Timberlake, Channing Tatum, Mark Wahlberg and Eva Longoria among them — took
"Memorial day is one of those solemn days when we pause to remember those young men and women who gave all their tomorrows so that we might have today," says Vietnam veteran Gus Allbritton. Aside from the pomp and circumstance of Memorial Day,
That will be my place to reflect, to mark this day. Memorial Day is at once a national day of commemoration and an intensely personal one. We all feel Memorial Day differently. But however it's experienced, it's the day we set aside as a nation, when