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- A moment of prayer at the 2012 Memorial Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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- Taps is sounded to honor Civil War veterans buried in the cemetery next to Zion (Spies) Lutheran Church, Reading, Pa. The congregation was established in 1774.
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- Veterans and active duty service members bow their heads in prayer during the Memorial Day ceremony at Lorraine American Cemetery, Saint Avold, France, burial site of 10,489 American service members who died during World War II.
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- A color guard with members of Chaska American Legion Post 57 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1791 visits the cemetery at East Union Lutheran Church, Carver, Minn.
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- A young man places a flag at the grave of a fallen soldier at the St. John’s Lutheran Church cemetery in Hamburg, Pa., on May 23, 2012.
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- Memorial Day evening at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Many people attend prayer services at cemeteries and memorials in honor of those who have died in military service.
