Memorial Day
On Memorial Day, let’s honor fallen health care workers
By Jana Riess — May 24, 2020
(RNS) — People don’t use the battlefield phrase ‘the front lines’ for nothing. On Memorial Day, health care workers who have died in the fight against COVID-19 are our new heroes.
How remembering the dead has evolved from graveside eulogy to farewell address
By Yonat Shimron — May 24, 2019
(RNS) — 'A great eulogy cannot beat back death, but it can give new meaning to life and this moment,' says Cyrus M. Copeland, who has written three books on the subject.
Memorial Day, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the American future
By Martin E. Marty — May 31, 2017
In a time of bitter divisions in New Orleans and throughout the nation at large, Landrieu spoke not as a great denunciator, but as a great enunciator of directions for his contemporaries to take.
What we can learn from the Dutch on Memorial Day
By Richard Mouw — May 24, 2017
DRIEBERGEN, Netherlands (RNS) Once a year in the Netherlands, joggers in the park stop running for two minutes. Bicyclists pull over to the side of the road. Television sets and radios are turned off. Parents hush their children. And in many villages and cities people congregate in public spaces for a communal ceremony.
This Memorial Day, a new prayer book for Jewish soldiers and sailors
By Lauren Markoe — May 21, 2014
(RNS) The military's 29 Jewish chaplains have often preferred their particular tradition's prayer book to any other's. The new prayer book attempts to remedy that.
Study suggests bad World War II experiences led vets to church
By Kimberly Winston — May 23, 2013
(RNS) "If veterans have had a bad experience, it is clear that one alternative that has helped people understand the world or find a common community has been religion," researcher Craig Wansink said.
Photo Slideshow: Memorial Day Lantern Floating Ceremony
By Sally Morrow — May 29, 2012
Lantern Floating Hawai’i 2012 culminated the day-long public celebrations of one of the largest Memorial Day observances in the US at the Ala Moana Beach Park near downtown Honolulu on May 28, 2012.
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