On Memorial Day, each gravesite has a small American flag carefully positioned exactly one boot’s length away from the headstone.

The "Field of Memories" at Arlington Memorial Gardens covers ... Sign up for our Newsletters Beginning Friday through Memorial Day, the flags will be raised and lit atop poles for the public ...

Remembrance ceremonies will be held at Arlington National Cemetery ... honors the war dead in the morning of Memorial Day, but then the flag is raised to full-staff at noon by the living ...