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View of the outside of the Pointe du Hoc Visitor Center.

The visitor center at Pointe du Hoc will close on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 3 p.m. due to the annual D-Day commemoration ceremony. However, the rest of the site will remain open for the ceremony, and until the normal closing time of 6 p.m. 

Historic photo shows headstones with flags and a crowd gathered in the memorial area.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Memorial Day. While remembrance of America’s war dead took place prior to 1868, it wasn’t until the post-Civil War era that this national commemoration fully emerged. Maj. Gen.  John A.

Historic photo shows destroyed town.

On May 28, 1918 the American 1st Division led an assault on the town of Cantigny, France, making it the first divisional attack by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I.

The exterior of the Normandy Visitor Center.

The Normandy Visitor Center will be closed on Sunday, May 27, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to coincide with the Memorial Day Ceremony. The visitor center will reopen at 12:30 p.m.

Sicily-Rome American Cemetery will have altered hours on Saturday, May 26, 2018 because of the Memorial Day Ceremony.

9 a.m.—1:30 pm.             Cemetery open

1:30 p.m.—4 p.m.            Cemetery closed for ceremony preparations

Historic photos shows men in uniform parading down city street.

Kentucky provided over 84,000 to serve in the U.S. armed forces during World War I. Of these, 2,418 died. The 38th (National Guard) Division drew units and troops from Kentucky, and the 84th Division drew many selected servicemen from Kentucky as well.

A toddler carries a white rose, amidst the headstones.

Nearly 20,000 visitors came to Netherlands American Cemetery May 2-6, 2018 to walk the cemetery grounds and experience Faces of Margraten.

Historic photo shows men in uniform eating.

In mid-1942 Japanese forces attacked the Aleutians, a series of islands running southwest from the Alaska Peninsula. Meant to distract the American fleet from the planned attack on Midway Island, Japanese forces captured Attu Island and Kiska Island on June 6 and 7, 1942.

Stone colonnades at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery include names of the missing.

In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.