A veteran who said he is known as "Traveler" of Pennsylvania prays over the name of his friend Carol Drazba, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Lt. Drazba, a 22-year-old Army nurse from Dunmore, Pa., was killed in a helicopter crash outside Saigon in 1966. Traveler said Drazba was one of very few women who died in Vietnam.
Jim Branks of Colorado salutes the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on which the name of his friend Marlow E. Madsen is etched. Lt. Madsen of Minneapolis, serving on the USS TICONDEROGA, was piloting a Navy A-1 attack aircraft when he crashed into the sea on January 18, 1967.
Danethe Perreira of Hawaii reacts after seeing her friend Edward Loo's name etched in the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Sunday, May 30, 2010. Sgt. Loo of Kamuela, Hi., was killed on April 1, 1969 in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam.
The wind wraps a US flag around the face of a U.S. Marine Corps color guard unit from San Jose, Calif., during the singing of the national anthem prior to the Diamondbacks-Giants baseball game Sunday, May 30, 2010, in San Francisco.
Joe Gick salutes during the playing of "Taps" as members of the Otterbein American Legion, Martin Kennedy Post 125, pay tribute to fallen soldiers at Pond Grove Cemetery in Benton County, Ind. on Sunday, May 30, 2010.
Marine Cpl. Patrick LeBlanc and his wife Kimberly of Greensboro, N.C., visit the gravesite of Patrick's platoon commander, Marine 2nd Lt. John Thomas Wroblewski, Sunday, May 30, 2010, at Arlington National Cemetery's section 60 in Arlington, Va. Wroblewski, of Oak Ridge, N.J., died on April 6, 2004 due to injuries received from hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was 24.
Cub Scout Nick Kollar, 8, from Eureka, Mo., places flags in front of headstones at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Kollar was one of more than 5,000 local scouts who showed up to help place flags at the more than 139,000 gravesites.
Girl Scout Aurora Ortiz helps place U.S. flags near head stones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in preparation of Memorial Day, Friday, May 28, 2010, in San Antonio. About 100,000 flags were placed.
Members of the 63rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company C stand in formation to put a marker from their company on a monument at Sewickley Cemetery, Sunday, May 30, 2010 in Sewickley, Pa. The cemetery had a 150th anniversary celebration, as part of the borough's Memorial Day festivities over the weekend
Flag bearer Joe Lini participates in the Italian American Memorial Day service in West Wyoming, Pa., Sunday, May 30, 2010.
Army veteran William N. Herrera from Nokesville, Va., takes some time at the grave of his wife, Kathleen, at Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Va., on Sunday, May 30, 2010. She was buried three years ago, said Herrera, who noted that there were a lot fewer tombstones in the area then.
John DeFruscio, 7, of Collegeville, Pa., walks on the edge of a field of flags on Boston Common ahead of Memorial Day, Friday, May 28, 2010, in Boston.
Representing the Military Order of Cootie, Wash., Grand Commander and President Dale and Dianne Fezer toss flowers into Budd Inlet during the annual waterside Memorial Day ceremony Sunday, May 30, 2010 at Percival Landing in Olympia, Wash. For about 26 years, the Thurston County Veterans Council have held the service, as veterans' organization representatives and family members toss individual flowers in remembrance, followed in a 21-gun salute and the playing of taps.
Planes from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the current Middle East conflict fly during a Memorial Day tribute prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Sunday, May 30, 2010. Among the aircraft taking part were a P-51 Mustang, a C-47 transport plane, an A1-H Skyraider, a T-28 Trojan, Little Bird and Blackhawk helicopters, four F-15 Eagles and a replica of the legendary "Memphis Belle" B-17 bomber.
U.S. soldiers unveil a steel construction beam from the World Trade Center during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the main U.S. base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010. The U.S. military's death toll in the Afghan conflict reached the 1,000 mark on May 28, 2010.
U.S. soldiers salute during a Memorial Day ceremony at the main U.S. base in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010.
High School JROTC students Jessica Bowen, left, and Angela Martin hug Friday, May 28, 2010, after Bowen placed an American flag on her grandfather's grave in Ashland, Ky. Bowen's grandfather, WWII veteran Mark Patrick, passed away in 2006, and it was her first visit since the funeral.
French Shannon, retired Army, 82nd Airborne Division, who served in World War II and the Korean War, salutes during the pledge of allegiance Monday, May 31, 2010, at Memorial Day services at the Sunrise Civic Center Amphitheatre in Sunrise, Fla.
Malak Ahmed, 6, an Iraqi girl living with her family in Lowell, Mass., examines one of the boots laid out in memory of soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars during a Memorial Day event sponsored in-part by the groups Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out, Monday, May 31, 2010, in Boston.
Korean War veteran George Knutson plays the bagpipes at the grave of a friend during his Memorial Day visit to the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, Calif., Monday, May 31, 2010. Knutson, who was a Navy Corpsman, visited the graves of several friends playing a song for each person.
Vice President Joe Biden lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2010.
President Barack Obama looks from under an umbrella before taking the stage in a driving rain storm to encourage the crowd to go to their cars for safety, during Memorial Day ceremonies at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., Monday, May 31, 2010.
People brave a driving rainstorm after President Barack Obama encouraged them to go to their cars for safety during Memorial Day ceremonies at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., Monday, May 31, 2010.
U.S. soldiers pray during a Memorial Day ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 31, 2010. Nearly 4,400 American service members have lost their lives in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
Retired U.S. Marine and Purple Heart recipient James M. Blaylock of Tucker, Ga., adjusts his hat during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Marietta National Cemetery on Monday, May 31, 2010 in Marietta, Ga. Blaylock lost his right arm as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War.
Andrea Vaquera, 69, from Phoenix, visits the grave of her husband of more than 50 years, Marine Sgt. Edward Vaquera, who died in 2008, during Memorial Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix Monday, May 31, 2010.
A horse-drawn caisson carrying the remains of 19 veterans who never received a proper burial arrives in front of City Hall in Dearborn, Mich., before the 86th Memorial Day Parade Monday, May 31, 2010. The remains were then put in a hearse and taken to the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly to be laid to rest.
A group of military servicemen marches in step as they depart the Crested Butte cemetery in Crested Butte, Colo., after Memorial Day services on Monday, May 31, 2010.
Volunteer Lisa Green helps clean up the beach at the Arlington West War Memorial prior to observances in Santa Monica, Calif., on Monday May 31, 2010. The crosses represent U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gail and Todd Cassiday, of Midland, Mich., read the names on the wall at the Veterans of Vietnam Memorial along West Main Street in Midland on Monday, May 31, 2010.
Cherry Knapp (second from right) and others fire their guns during a 21-gun salute by the Bay City Veterans Council Honor Guard during the Memorial Day Ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park in Bay City, Mich., Monday, May 31, 2010.
A Philippine Army soldier practices taps before the start of U.S. Memorial Day ceremonies at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, said to be the largest to house U.S. troops killed during World War II, at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig city, south of Manila, on Sunday May 30, 2010. More than 17,000 American military, including 570 Filipinos who served with the U.S. Forces in the southwest Pacific, have been laid to rest in this cemetery.
Members of the Montgomery County Honor Guard bow their heads in prayer during a Memorial Day ceremony Monday, May 31, 2010 in The Woodlands, Texas.
Charon Rivers visits the grave of her son, Thomas E. Rivers Jr., from Hoover, Ala., at the Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo, Ala., Monday, May 31, 2010. Marine Lance Cpl. Rivers was killed in Helmand province in Afghanistan in April 2010. The cemetery held its first Memorial Day observance since burials began at the 479-acre site last June.