Memorial Day

The family of fallen Wading River soldier Sergeant Jonathan M. Keller yesterday announced a partnership with United Way of Long Island that will allow donations to the Sergeant Jonathan M. Keller Memorial Fund to be tax-deductible.

Memorial Day ceremonies at Calverton National Cemetery today included a special tribute to Riverhead Medal of Honor recipient PFC Garfield M. Langhorn, who died a hero at age 20 in Vietnam on Jan. 15, 1969.

Clear skies and plenty of sunshine provided a perfect day for Riverhead's annual Memorial Day parade and ceremonies this morning, sponsored by the Riverhead Combined Veterans Committee, and residents turned out across downtown Riverhead to honor and remember America's military heroes.

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day to remember our nation's sons and daughters who left the comfort of their homes and communities to...

Hundreds of people visited downtown Riverhead for East End Arts' 19th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival yesterday. Artists of all ages created chalk...

Calverton National, America's busiest national cemetery, conducts about 6,000 burials each year. More than 3,000 veterans of WWI are interred at Calverton, which opened in 1978. Born in the 1800s, those vets probably don’t have a lot of relatives around to remember them and mark their graves. "Without you, it would not be done,” cemetery director Michael Picerno told the Scouts.

Though the war that took more than 58,000 American lives ended nearly 40 years ago, emotions still run high among veterans and most...