American Legion Post 76 hosted a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at Lake Sahara South Park in The Lakes on Monday, May 25. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutefsaye
A Burlington Northern Sante Fe train pulls the world’s largest train car with an old nuclear reactor. It is headed to Apex Industrial Park, just north of Las Vegas.
Pete Madredes ran a 100-mile marathon at Exploration Peak Park in Las Vegas to raise money for Mission 22, a nonprofit that supports veterans with mental illness. He started Sunday morning, May 24, and ended Memorial Day morning. (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Memorial Day isn’t just an opportunity for a barbecue or beach trip. It’s a day honoring American service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Councilwoman Victoria Seaman launches project memorial to help with the memorial day tradition of placing the American flag on the graves of fallen servicemen and women.
Gene Ramos remembers December 1950 as the coldest winter in 100 years. He remembers chipping away with a trenching tool to make a divot for a foxhole in the frozen Korean soil. Today as veterans and families across the nation pause for Memorial Day, Ramos said he will be thinking about the comrades he lost on those battlefields and another friend who endured prisoner of war hardships with him.