People pay their respects across the country on Memorial Day
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris stand at attention after placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, in Arlington, Va.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A visitor carries a bouquet of flowers while searching for a gravesite to mark the Memorial Day holiday in Fort Logan National Cemetery Monday, in southeast Denver.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Volunteer Wendy Lerian places flowers over the graves of the fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in Arlington, Va., Monday.ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden talk with a family as they visit section 12 at Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, in Arlington, Va.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An early morning visitor to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington pauses to look at a name on the wall on Memorial Day, Monday.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Military service members toast over the grave of a fallen soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in Arlington, Va., Monday.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Families visit the Los Angeles National Cemetery over the long holiday weekend as the state prepared to shed some of its coronavirus rules in Los Angeles, Monday.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Members of the Murguia family from Lynwood, Calif., take pictures as they observe Memorial Day as they visit for the first time the Los Angeles National Cemetery over the long holiday weekend as the state prepared to shed some of its coronavirus rules in Los Angeles, Monday.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former President George W. Bush attends a wreath-laying ceremony near two chairs honoring his late parents, former President George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, in Dock Square, during a Memorial Day service in Kennebunkport, Maine, Monday.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miles Hagen, 19, part of Bugles Across America, plays the trumpet as other pays respect to the fallen soldiers at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery on Memorial Day Monday, in Elwood, Ill.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Flags and tributes mark the Memorial Day holiday are placed among the headstones in Fort Logan National Cemetery Monday, in southeast Denver.