Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

Monday, May 27, 2024, in honor of Memorial Day. Krista Meinert, of Racine, Wisc., looks at a photo of her son, Marine Lance Corporal Jacob Alexander Meinert, 20, that she attached to his ...

Monday, May 27, 2024, on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) FILE – Krista Meinert, of Racine, Wisc., looks at a photo of her son, Marine Lance Corporal Jacob Alexander Meinert ...

FILE – Krista Meinert, of Racine, Wisc., looks at a photo of her son, Marine Lance Corporal Jacob Alexander Meinert, 20, that she attached to his gravestone in Section 60 of Arlington National ...

And women in some Confederate states were decorating graves before the war’s end. Krista Meinert, of Racine, Wisc., looks at a photo of her son, Marine Lance Corporal Jacob Alexander Meinert ...