The employees of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division honored fallen American service members with a wreath-laying ceremony, May 31...

"Assume the role of boarding law enforcement," booms an Italian voice over the ships intercom...

Brooklyn citizens paid tribute to service members and the borough's veterans with the Greenpoint Veterans Memorial Parade at Cadman Plaza as part of Fleet Week New York, May 29...

Sailors and Marines participated in the annual Village of Hastings-on-Hudson Memorial Day Parade as part of Fleet Week New York (FWNY), May 29...

Sea service members and first responders joined together to usher in the Memorial Day holiday with the annual Freedom Run through downtown Manhattan as part of Fleet Week New York (FWNY), May 29...

Sailors, veterans and civilians attended the "Tolling the Boats" ceremony hosted by Commander, Submarine Group Nine at Deterrent Park on Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, May 26...

Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point held a Memorial Day Medal of Honor dedication ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, May 27...

More than 55 Girl Scouts and troop leaders from the Heart of Hudson Council arrived on the Wasp-class multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) with boxes of cookies for Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen as part of Operation Cookie Drop during Fleet Week New York, May 28...

USS Farragut (DDG 99) Sailors, who are in New York in support of 2016 Fleet Week New York (FWNY), gathered at the Woodland Cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony in honor of Adm. David Farragut, May 28...

On May 5, 1868, three years after the Civil War ended, the head of an organization of Union veterans - the Grand Army of the Republic - established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers...