memorials

Home Secretary James Cleverly said scaling remembrance sites was ‘an insult’ and ‘cannot continue.’

“It’s so far from home,” Andrew said, after he had stared at the memorial for a solid two minutes. I understood what he meant.

A park ranger passing by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial called one morning and said, “Some fools have left a motorcycle at The Wall.”

At the southernmost tip of Roosevelt Island, in the East River, the Franklyn D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park Dedication Ceremony held Wednesday morning was packed with big names in politics.

Canadians honoured their fallen police and peace officers at an annual memorial service on Sunday.

Any firefighter who dies performing services will have his name included on the Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Albany, after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the initiative into law Thursday.

A life-size bronze statue of singer Amy Winehouse is planned for a music venue in north London.

The service included flower-laying and musical performances to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, just a few hundred miles from Halifax. The unknown child was positively identified in 2007 as 19-month-old English boy Sidney Goodwin, whose parents and five siblings died in the Titanic disaster.

Chinese miners massacred for gold.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial opened to the public on Aug. 22, standing as a national monument in Washington, D.C., to King’s humanitarian vision.

For the first time ever, the United States will have a representative at the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Nagasaki marking the 1945 atomic bombing of the city by the United States, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said Sunday.

Family members of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack commemorate the ten year anniversary by mending the National 9/11 flag.

Alliance holds candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The Hong Kong police arrested 13 democracy activists for staging a demonstration to mark the 21st anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre.

The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum hosted a solemn ceremony on the 15 year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Contruction on the the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center has finally begun.