memorial day

Memorial Day is fast approaching, occurring on or around this date. Here's a sampling of how communities throughout North Dakota have observed the day of military remembrance, from picnics to parades to poppy sales.

If undisturbed, a poppy seed will lie on the ground for years without producing a plant, and partially for that reason, the poppy has become a symbol of war and remembrance.

The final months of World War I collided with the terrible flu pandemic of 1918. The war facilitated the global spread of the virus, and many service…

In 1919, farms and communities across the state had been drained of young men -- called into service during two years of war. Weekly casualty lists…

In 1919, Memorial Day was a solemn occasion. It found an exhausted population in North Dakota striving to return to some sense of the lives they had prior…

Today is Memorial Day, a day to honor those who paid the extreme sacrifice in the service of their country. In 1918, Memorial Day services across the…

May 26, 2018, "As starkly moving as taps at dusk" says the Washington Post about Beyond Glory, a powerful tribute to military valor written and performed…