TORONTO – Americans gathered Monday at memorials and cemeteries across the country to honour fallen service members.
From the Arlington National Cemetery to Moore, Oklahoma here’s a look at 10 sombre images from Memorial Day.
Anne Kornblut and her two-year-old son visit a gravesite in section 60 at Arlington Cemetery, May 27, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
An emotional Alex Burgess visits the gravesite of an old friend who was killed in Iraq, in section 60 at Arlington Cemetery, May 27, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Heidi Heming is comforted by volunteer Marina Clifford, while visiting a loved one’s gravesite at Section 60 on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Molly Riley / AP Photo
Chelsay Kurtz weeps with her daughter Chsaige, 3, while sitting by the name of her husband’s friend, Cpl. Taylor Baune, who was killed in Afghanistan, during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Mount Soledad Veteran’s Memorial in La Jolla, California. Sandy Huffaker/ AP Photo
Magdalena Crews weeps at the grave of her husband, Gene Wesley Crews Sr., at the West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery in Germantown, Tennessee. Mike Brown / AP Photo
Sea Cadet Andrew Culp, 13, cleans a war memorial during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Mount Soledad Veteran’s Memorial in La Jolla, California. Sandy Huffaker / AP Photo
Christina Kaye weeps over the grave of her two brothers, Mark and Matthew, who died while in military service, during Memorial Day commemoration at the Los Angeles National Cemetery. Richard Vogel / AP Photo
Pat Newcomb cleans debris from around the headstone of her late husband in the Moore City Cemetery on Memorial Day May 27, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Civil War reenactor David Hillier salutes while visiting the gravesite of a soldier killed during the Korean War, at Arlington Cemetery, May 27, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Friends and family gather around the gravesite of fallen soldier U.S. Army Capt. Ronald George Luce Jr. who was killed in Afghanistan, in section 60 at Arlington Cemetery, May 27, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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